RENAISSANCE

MA. CAROLINE A. SANDIQUEBSED II-F

THE RENAISSANCE BRINGS CHANGE:

EUROPEAN RULERS GAINED NEW AUTHORITY

ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY OF THE CHURCH BEGAN TO BE QUESTIONED.

LONG PERIOD OF WARS, EPIDEMICS AND ECONOMIC UPHEAVAL CAME TO END.

NEW SPIRIT OF OPTIMISM AND CONFIDENCE AND CREATIVITY EMERGED.

CLASSICAL LEARNING INSPIRES RENAISSANCE:

RENAISSANCE:

REBIRTH 1300’s ARTS INTELLECTUAL LIFE WAYS VIEWING THE WORLD 14th TO 16TH CENTURY

RENAISSANCE DIFFERED FROM THE MIDDLE AGES IN SEVERAL WAYS:

RENEWED APPRECIATION FOR ARTS AND LEARNING ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME

NEW INTERESTING WORLDLY MATTERS

EMPHASIS ON HUMAN LIFE

ITALY

FRANCESCO PETRARCH ITALIAN POET 1304 LED THE RENAISSANCE HUMANISM “NOTHING WEIGHS LESS THAN A

PEN”

POLITICS IN RENAISSANCE:

GREEKS AND ROMANS VALUED PUBLIC SERVICE

PRAISED THOSE WHO WERE USEFUL TO SOCIETY

NICCOLLO MACHIAVELLI DIPLOMAT AND STUDENT OF

POLITICS THE PRINCE

WEALTHY PATRONS SUPPORT THE RENAISSANCE

FLORENCE:

CULTURAL CENTER OF RENAISSANCE ITALY

MEDICI

ACTIVE IN POLITICS BANKERS WHO HAD BRANCH OFFICES

THROUGH OUT WESTERN EUROPE

LORENZO 1449-1492 “THE MAGNIFICENT” TALENTED POET

ISABELLA D’ESTE 1470-1539 FIRST WOMAN OF THE WORLD

PRINTING PRESS RENAISSANCE

1450’S:

EUROPEAN FIRST USED MOVABLE METAL TYPE TO PRINT A BOOK

JOHANN GUTENBERG CREDITED WITH PRINTING THE FIRST

BOOK

RENAISSANCE IDEAS SPREAD NORTHERN EUROPE

DESIDERIUS ERASMUS 1466 ROTTERDAM, HOLAND STUDIED HUMANITIES AND

CHRISTIAN DOCTRINES

THE PRAISE OF FOLLY:

ERASMUS CRITICIZED THE SCHOLARS, SCIENTIST, PHILOSOPHERS AND CLERGY

SIR THOMAS MORE ENGLISH STATES MAN ERASMUS’ CLOSE FRIEND UTOPIA

REFERENCES:

Marvin Perry, A World of History, Houghton Mifflin Company, 325-326pp.

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