Lecture 7: Crises and Humanism Flashcards
True or false: Warfare and its consequences undermined the foundations of feudal society
True
When was the first instance of plague in Europe
mid 1300s
What are secular politics and how did they affect the church in the 14th century?
Secular politics are the idea that religion should be separate from government/ separation of church and state, it led to a split of the church
What was the Avignon papacy?
When there were 7 different popes successively residing in Avignon instead of Rome because of a clash between the current pope and the king of France
True or False: education led to the compilation of lost sources, including Muslim ones
True
When was the main period of the Renaissance?
14th-16th centuries
Where did the Renaissance start?
In the city-states of northern Italy
What was humanist philosophy concerned with? (3)
- Reviving Greco-Roman values and ideas
- earthly world
- life
Who is considered the father of humanism?
Petrarch
True or false: Humanists did not normalize the use of vernacular
False
Who was Erasmus?
a humanist who contributed to knowledge and ideas of human agency
Who helped bring aspects of humanist thought into politics?
Machiaveli
True or false: wealth, education, and sophistication increased in the 12th-14th centuries
True
