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The Courtier
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BALDASSARE CASTIGLIONI. One of the greatest nonfiction literary creations of the Southern Renaissace, it described the proper behavior for Renaissance men and women.
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Renaissance
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Brothers and Sisters of the Common Life
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A prominent group in the Netherlans that dveloped outside the traditional Church.. They Practiced a faith and lifestyle called Modern Devotion in which men and women lived seperately communallly, but were not monks or nuns. THey took no vows, wore no special clothes and could leave at will. Their teachings emphasized humility, tolerance, reverence, love of neighbor, and duty. THOMAS A. KEMPIS
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Renaissance
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Bubonic Plague (BLACK DEATH)
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A deadly disease caused by by black rats on trade ships. Huge population decrease. Grey rats and No more thatched roofs caused it to eventually die out.
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Renaissance
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Christian Humanists
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Christian based thinkers and writers who were more spiritual in their outlook, less materialistic, and more focused on questions of morality and ethics. ERASMUS. NORTHERN RENAISSANCE.
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Renaissance
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Condottieri
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Foreign mercenaries who were hired for security purposes in the Italian city-states.
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Renaissance
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Crusades
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A series of wars fought in an attempt to capture the Holy Land from Muslim control. The Christian crusaders who survived brought back with them silks, porcelains, and spices which introduced Europe to Asian goods. They also gained knowledge of Arabic medicine, science, and navigation, which were superior to European knowledge at the time.
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Renaissance
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Dante Alighieri
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DIVINE COMEDY. Written in Vernacular. Poked fun at vices in Catholic Church
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Renaissance
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Erasmus
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PRAISE OF FOLLY. A clergyman from the Netherlands who believed in the goodness of humanity. He advocated the study of the Bible and the classics, emphasizing the life and teachings of Jesus and ignoring the ideas of original sin and the power of relics. His Praise of Folly made fun of the worldliness and superstition of the Church.
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Renaissance
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Eastern Orthodox Church
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In 1054, the Christian Church formally split into the Roman Catholic church, centered in Italy, and the Eastern Orthodox Church, centered in Constantinople.
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Renaissance
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Filippo Brunelleschi
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Artist; DOME.
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Renaissance
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Flemish Masters
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Northern Renaissance artists who contructed realistic portraits in oil.
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Renaissance
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Francesco Petrarch
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Humanist. Poet. Invented the sonnet.
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Renaissance
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Frescoes
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Paintings done by mixing color into wet plaster on a wall or ceiling. Da Vinci's The Last Supper and Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel paintings are examples of such works
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Renaissance
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The Decameron
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Giovanni Boccaccio. Vernacular, told secular (sometimes risque) tales.
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Renaissance
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Gunpowder
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An invention that completely changed the Western world. The development of gunpowder led to warfare conducted with muskets and cannons rather than with bows and swords.
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Renaissance
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Fugger
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Medicis of the Northern Renaissance. Bankers in the German States.
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Renaissance
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Holy Roman Empire
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All of the German states bouned together under an elected emperor.
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Renaissance
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Humanism
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A secular conception of life adopted during the Renaissance that emphasized individualism
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Renaissance
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Inquisition
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A church court that was vigilant in enforcing religious uniformity.
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Renaissance
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Madonnas
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One of the religous icons depicted by Renaissance artists
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Renaissance
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Medici
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Merhants in Florence who went into banking as the flow of money increased
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Renaissance
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Mysticism
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The Northern Renaissance religious way of thinking that said that individuals could commune with God without the Church
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Renaissance
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New Monarchies (Tudors Valois Habsburgs)
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Powerful ruling families who politically united large parts of Northern Europe. Henry VII became the first Tudor monarch of Englan in 1485 after the War of the Roses, passing laws against "livery and maintenance." The Valois monarchy of France established control of most of the countryside in the 1400s. The French king could tax his subjects without Parliamentary consent and appoint bishops and abbots. Th Habsburgs, the powerful ruling family of Spain, controlled the Low Countries and much of Central Europe, including Austria.
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Renaissance
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Oligarchies
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Committees of the wealthy and powerful members of society who ruled the Italian City States
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Renaissance
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Perspective
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Painters of the Renaissance employed this artistic style, which gave their work depth and sense of the three-dimensional.
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Renaissance
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Pieta
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A popular Renaissance sculpture featuring Mary cradling the body of the crucified Jesus
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Renaissance
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Raphael Sanzio
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A Renaissance artist who painted religious topics, including the Madonna and Chirld
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Renaissance
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Renaissance Man
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The ideal person who used his opportunities, demonstrated control, and was casually expert in many areas. THE COURTIER, CASTIGLIONE.
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Renaissance
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Star Chamber
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A royal court, established by Henry VII of England, for offending nobility. It was conducted without a jury.
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Renaissance
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The Prince
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This 1513 book, written by NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI, described what effective rulers did to get what they wanted. Machiavelli saw the great political failures of the Italians city0states and admired the rising new monarchies of Northern Europe.
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Renaissance
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Sir Thomas More
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UTOPIA. An english scholar who described an ideal society in which the goal for all inhabitants was to develop their rational faculties. Material possessions had no value and adults divided their time between manual labor and study.
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Renaissance
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Virtu
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A wide range of skills possessed by a Renaissance man, that included the ability to dance, fight, write poetry, converse with women, or ride a horse.
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Renaissance
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Feudalism
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A system that exchanges loyalty for protection
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Renaissance
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Manorialism
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a self-sufficient economic unit
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Renaissance
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The Roman Catholic church in the Middle Ages
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the major unifying force. Controlled salvation, education, and the government and the church were intertwined
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Renaissance
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Calamitous 14th Century
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Economics- inflation, little ice age, weakened population, scapegoats, bubonic plague,
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Renaissance
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100 Years War
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Edward III vs Phillip VI
French nobles and merchants- England because of wool trade and the desire/fear of a strong monarchy Salic Law- no one can take the thrown of France if they are a descendent of a woman |
Renaissance
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Battle of Crecy in 100 Years War
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English used long bows for the first time
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Renaissance
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Joan of Arc
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turned the course of the 100 years war for France
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Renaissance
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Consequences of 100 years war
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1. growth of parliament in England
2. Knighthood ends 3. Rise of nationalism 4. Feudalism ends in France 5. Growth of French Royal Power |
Renaissance
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Babylonian Captivity
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Avignon Papacy- Philip IV kidnaps Pope Clement V
-Rome elects another pope |
Renaissance
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Great Schism
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Avignon Pope vs. French Pope
all excommunicated support along national lines decline in church power and respect |
Renaissance
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Consiliar movement
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1. internal reform movement within the church
2. wanted to check on the pope, like power given to council 3. Calls for total equality (women popes) 4. Bible in vernacular |
Renaissance
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Council of Pisa
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Third pope was elected as the Pope of Pisa as a result of the Great Schism
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Renaissance
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Council of Constance
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1. ended the Great Schism
2. Fired three popes 3. Elected a Martin V |
Renaissance
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Marriage in the middle ages
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1. Arranged marriages
2. Large disconnect between male and female ages 3. Women usually were pregnant before marriage |
Renaissance
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Guilds
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1. Members of a trade
2. Limited and restricted 3. Set prices for their industry 4. Some women allowed |
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Chaucer
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1. Wrote CANTERBURY TALES in the vernacular
2. Reflected English social life and cultural tensions |
Renaissance
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Renaissance - Venice
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Economics-
trade and ship building. Composed of canals (can not be invaded) Ruled by merchant oligarchy. |
Renaissance
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Renaissance - Florence
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DI MEDICI FAMILY
1. Papal Bankers - Public works/city beautification - Art -Savonarola |
Renaissance
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Savonarola
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1. anti-secular
2. Bonfire vanities 3. chased artists away from Florence |
Renaissance
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Renaissance - Milan
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Sforza Family
1. Metal working 2. Trade center |
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Renaissance - Naples
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1. Trade
2. Poor farmland 3. Constantly invaded |
Renaissance
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Borgia Family
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Line of popes who controlled papal states
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Renaissance
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Lorenzo Valla
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ON THE DONATION OF CONSTANTINE
1. Disproved that the document was authentic |
Renaissance
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Mirandola
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ORATION ON THE DIGNITY OF MAN
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Renaissance
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Chiarascuro
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Colorful, 3D look, lights vs darks, realistic, landscapes, portraits, signing the paintings
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Renaissance
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Giotto
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1. Father of Renaissance paints
2. Emotion 3. LAMENTATION ON THE DEATH OF CHRIST |
Renaissance
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Masacchio
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1. Father of modern painting
2. Light and Dark |
Renaissance
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Boticelli
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1. BIRTH OF VENUS
perspective, light and dark, realists, concept of triangle, greek and roman |
Renaissance
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Raphael
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Paints the Madonna as beaitful, admired,
- medieval triangle |
Renaissance
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Michelangelo
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- Sistine Chapel
- combined Christianity with Pagan form - DAVID PIETA |
Renaissance
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Titian
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From Venice
Uses Bright colors |
Renaissance
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Donatello
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balance and self awareness
bronze and wood |
Renaissance
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Ghiberti
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made famous carvings on doors with detail
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Renaissance
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Christine de Pizan
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querelles des femmes
-women are not intelligent because society does not want them to be. -All they need to do is become educated |
Renaissance
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Northern Renaissance
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-Less secular because people to not see the corruptiveness of pope
-funded by the Hansiatic League and hte Fuggers -Use knowledge of classics and Bible to fix the church (educated people) |
Renaissance
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Erasmus
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attacks practice not doctrine
IN PRAISE OF FOLLEY |
Renaissance
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Rabelais
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GARGANTUA and PANTAGRUEL
"Do what thou wilt" -French sattire, risque |
Renaissance
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Northern Renaissance Art
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-Brigher colors
-Surreal |
Renaissance
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Northern Renaissance Artists
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Bosch- grotesque, nightmares
Breughal- landscapes and peasants Durer- woodcuts, religions, linear Van Eyck- Human personality |
Renaissance
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Charles VII
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1. Raises taxes to support army
2. Began the PRAGMATIC SANCTION which gave French Kings the power to appoint bishops in France 3. First permanent standing army |
Renaissance
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Louis XI
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1. Son of Charles VII
2. Called the Spider King 3. Improved trade and navy 4. Reduced noble power |
Renaissance
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War of the Roses
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Power struggle between Henry VI and Richard, Duke of York
- Edward IV becomes King of England |
Renaissance
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Henry VII
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-Tudor
-Precursor to absolutism -power to middle class at the expense of the nobles -local gov runned by volunteer -justices of the peace -increased industry and merchant marine |
Renaissance
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Isabella and Ferdinand
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-Marriage united Spain
-Power to middle class, not nobles -appointed bishops (uber catholic) -Reconquista -Jews and muslims left Spain |
Renaissance
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Reconquista
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-convert or die
-Jews and Muslims -Loss of rich, educated, doctors, and large percent of royal council |
Renaissance
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