Renaissance Flashcards
Flagellants
Whipped themselves in atonement
Black Death
1348-1351
Hundred Year’s War
1337-1453
Between Fr and Eng over Fr throne.
Joan of Arc
Hundred years War
Woman fought for Fr
Tried for witchcraft
Great Schism
1378-1417
Rival Fr and Italian popes compete for power
Conciliarism
Great Schism
Use church councils to check papal authority
John Huss
Great Schism 1400s
Made Hussites in HRE
Humanism
Literary and linguistic movement in renaissance, revived Latin and greek
Secularism
Renaissance
Religion becomes less important
Individualism
Renaissance
Focus on learning and human affair should be of individual. Promote self.
Petrarch
Niccolo Machiavelli
Renaissance
“The Prince”
Nation must always be ready for war
Political science
Petrarch
Renaissance
Father of humanism
Individualism
Revived more pure form of Latin
Castiglione
Renaissance
“Book of the courtier”: How-to gain success
Advocate women education
Donatello
Renaissance
Cast bronze statue David
Naturalism
Da Vinci
Renaissance man
Mona Lisa, last supper
Raphael
Renaissance
‘School of Athens’
Johann Gutenberg
1450s
Gutenberg printing press
Renaissance Florence
Republic led by Medici
Cosimo de Medici: patron of humanism.
Medici bank
Renaissance Milan
Military dictatorship by Visconti.
Francesco Sforza: took city with mercenaries
Papal States
Elective monarchy, could not manage nobles.
Alexander VI: Borgia line, height of renaissance papal corruption.
Julius II: warrior pope, led armies.
Renaissance Venice
Oligarchy.
Serene republic
Doge: ldr chosen by Great council and senate.
Trades with Byzantine and Ottoman Empires
Renaissance Naples
Backward feudal monarchy and participated little in renaissance
