Renaissance Flashcards
Explain the meaning of the renaissance
Rebirth
X List and describe characteristics of the Italian renaissance
Urban society, secular ideas, recovery from disasters, individual ability
X How did the renaissance affect upper and lower class
Upper embraced new ideas and activities, and had more time and money for the luxuries of the renaissance.
Poor were affected too, but less directly.
X Why Milan and Florence flourish and grow so quickly during renaissance
Trade ports brought in goods and new ideas, the cities were run by powerful families, and there was no monarch. Strongly centralized states.
How did Niccolo Machiavelli’s political views influence politics during the time and how does it influence our leaders today
Diplomat in Florence, forced into exile. Wrote The Prince, one of the most influential books on political power in the western world. It is still read widely today.
Abandon morality as the basis for the analysis of political activity.
X How was society divided during the renaissance
Clergy (those who prayed)
nobility (those who fought)
peasants and townspeople (those who worked)
X Describe the family dynamic during the time
Dowry
Carefully arranged strategic marriages to ensure their family’s position. Marriage contract legally binding.
Father/husband central. Name, manage money, decisions for the children’s lives until he died or freed them (before a judge).
Mother supervise the household.
Dowry- money from wife’s family to husband for marriage
Define:
- Individualism
- Secularism
- Humanism
Individualism: independence of the individual and stressed individual initiative, action, and interests
Secularism: seeing the world in material, not spiritual terms
Humanism: intellectual movement based on the study of Greek and Roman classics.
X Petrarch’s contribution to the age of humanism
The father of Italian renaissance humanism.
Sought forgotten Latin manuscripts, searched monastic libraries throughout Europe.
Use of pure, classical Latin.
X Define Liberal Studies
Liberal arts.
History, moral philosophy, rhetoric, grammar/logic, poetry, math, astronomy, music.
X How did the push for education impact society
Education was supposed to prepare the individuals for life and to make them well-rounded citizens.
Dante
Used Italian vernacular in his work, the Divine Comedy.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Used English vernacular in the Canterbury Tales.
Showed the entire range of English society.
Francois Rabelais
Used French vernacular in his works, Pantagruel, and Gargantua.
X Masaccio
Frescos in Florence. 3D, laws of perspective, realistic style.
