Renaissance Flashcards
1
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medieval times
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- focused on life after death
- little individual self-awareness
2
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spain
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- castile and argon (Isabella and Ferdinand)
- Muslims still in Granada
- conquest of the south
3
Q
jacob burckhardt
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renaissance is a distinct period, instead of just continuing
4
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renaissnace causes
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- no more feudalism
- market economy in northern Italy (banking and trade)
- great schism weaken authority of the church
5
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humansim
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- liberal and secular learning
- classical texts
- education of classics, rhetoric and history
6
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renaissance characteristics
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- wealthy merchant families instead of hereditary kings
- personal achievement
- civic humanism
- materialism
- emphasis on being educated, refined, literate (humanism)
- balance, order, symmetry
- city state governments
- patronage of arts
- vernacular
- five major states of Milan, Venice, Florence, Papal states, Naples
7
Q
Dante
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vernacular literature (divine comedy) (hell, heaven etc..)
8
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petrarch
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- father of humanism
- classical and christian values coexisting
- scholasticism contempt
- liked ancient Rome
- vernacular
9
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boccaccio
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- humanist studies (Cameron)
- vernacular
10
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castiglione
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- education
- good manners (courtier)
11
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pico della mirandola
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(dignity of man) human potential for greatness
12
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the medici
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bankers who ruled Florence
- great patrons of the arts
- Machiavellians
13
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machiavelli
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(the prince)
- heroism and patriotism of Romans
- need to be cruel and ruthless
- wrote about Italian rulers
14
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pope Julius II
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- patron of the arts
- expels french invaders = “warrior pope”
15
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outcomes of the reniassance
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- achieve realism
- weakening of the authority of the church
- individualism instead of corporatism (ambassadors and city states)
16
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northern renaissance characteristics
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- less secularizing than Italian renaissance
- more concerned with religious piety than Italians (studied earlier christian texts )
- christian humanism
- classical texts/ideas
- literary
- vernacular = national feeling
17
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erasmus
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- reconciled classical and christian values
- believed in freedom of human will
- scholarship
- resists reformation
- critics the church
- northern renaissance
- christian humanist
18
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thomas more
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- author of utopia
- resists English reformation (care more about his job)
- northern renaissance
- christian humanist
19
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christian humanism
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- studied classical sources
- combine classical and christian values
- moral and institutional reform
- Erasmus and Thomas more
- engagement in politics is necessary
- education = reform (Erasmus)
- religious piety
