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1485
To
1660
Means…
Refers to…
Associated with…
“Rebirth”
Intellectual & Artistic energies
Greek & Roman civilizations
Renaissance
The start of the Renaissance is typically associated with …
Italy
Renaissance Writing
Francesco Petrarcha
Italian scholar
“Father of Humanism”
Poet (Petrarchan Sonnet)
Renaissance Writing
Giovanni Boccaccio Author & poet
Friend of Petrarch
Humanist
Wrote the Decameron
Renaissance Painting•Giotto di Bondone
Painter Architect
Renaissance ArchitectureFilippo
Brunelleschi
Architect
Engineer…domes
Built in Florence
Renaissance Sculpture…Donatello (Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi)Sculptor...bas relief
Renaissance HumanismPhilosophy that centered around cultural
and educational reform. It developed during the fourteenth and turn-of-the fifteenth centuries, and was a response to the challenge of Medieval scholastic education, which emphasized practical, pre-professional and scientific studies.Rather than train professionals in jargon and strict practice, humanists sought to create a citizenry (including women) able to speak and write with eloquence and clarity. Thus, they would be capable of better engaging the civic life of their communities and persuading others to virtuous and prudent actions.
Italian statesman and (unofficial) ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance.Known as Lorenzo the Magnificentdiplomat, politician and patron of scholars, artists and poets.Lived during the height of the Italian Renaissance.
Lorenzo de’ Medici
Famous Faces of the Day
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
The War of the Roses
House of York
House of Lancaster Two houses fighting over the
throne of England.
Henry VII Begins the Tudor Dynasty
Kills the present King (Richard III) at Bosworth Field, then unites both houses by marrying Elizabeth of York.
Tudor Dynasty & the Renaissance
Crowned King in 1509
Inspired by Europe
Wanted Enlightenment
Renaissance Prince
Henry VIII
Corruption of the Catholic Church
Martin Luther
Protestant Reformation
95 Theses- laid out the
abuses of the Catholic Church and its
clergy- nailed to door of
the Castle Church in Wittenberg,
Germany
Henry VIIIBattle with the Catholic
ChurchDefender of the Faith—
Devout Catholic KingReasons for the Separation
with Rome:Political reason for being part of The Reformation.
Wanted to divorce Catherine of Aragon (daughter of Ferdinand & Isabella of Spain)
Needed a male heir
The Battle with Rome cont. Pope refuses the
divorce
Henry disobeys the church
Declares himself as…
Head of the Church of England (the Anglican church)
Church & State are Now the same entity.
Long-Range Consequences…
England was forced to be dependent on itself (no one in Europe would support them now.)
Many people refused to accept Henry as Head of the Church of England.
Henry killed many people who opposed him. It was a political necessity.
Leader of the Renaissance… Sir Thomas More:
Counselor to Henry VIIILord Chancellor Lawyer, humanist, statesman.Executed as a traitorSainted by both the Catholic & Anglican churches.No one was safe from Henry VIII’s drive for power & authority
Henry VIII’s children… Edward VI
Jane Seymour was his mother (3rd wife)
King at 9 yrs old
Very sickly child
16 when he died of turberculosis.
Mary TudorDaughter of Catherine of Aragon (1st wife)Ruled from 1553 – 1558She Re-established Catholicism during her reign of terror.Burned heretics“Bloody Mary”Married Phillip II of Spain (her cousin)
Elizabeth IThe Elizabethan
AgeDaughter of Anne BoleynRuled from 1558 – 1603Established the English Protestant church & was Supreme Governor .The “Virgin Queen”The Golden Age of England
The Elizabethan Age: LiteraturePastoral Poetry…set in the
countryside, with shepherds & shepherdesses; concerns love, & is
typically song-like
Shakespeare… Sonnets (154) Drama (37)
Shakespearean Spenserian Petrarchan Sidneya
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