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28 Cards in this Set
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Troubled Times
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onset of plague
long economic depression urban riots peasant unrest All a continuous 14th century disruption |
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Plague
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Bubonic plague aka the black death
Dance of Death leading image in late medieval art & literature Folly of human ambition |
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Famine & War
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Famine due to agricultural failure
War cut off trade routes Primary consequence was industry and loss of man power |
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Demographic Consequence
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Decrease in density or rural population
Rise of economic centers Decline of manorialism in western Europe |
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Hundred Years War
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England vs. France: war fought solely on French soil
Heroic figure : Joan of Arch |
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Consequence
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England lost its French lands; isolated England continental affairs
France increased holdings in modern France French & English economics exhausted |
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Papal Monarchy/ The Great Schism
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Two year period: two & sometimes three popes, each claiming papal authority
Western Christendom divided |
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Major threat to Papal Power
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The Avignonease papacy
The great Schism The Conciliar Movement |
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Religion
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New Devotion expressed through Thomas a' Kempis
Wrote the Imitation of Christ |
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John Waycliff
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Founder of Flagellants
Plague punishment from god |
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Inquisition
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Church court devoted to identifying & eliminating heretics in Europe
Auto da fe: act of faith |
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Theology, Philosophy, & science
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Via moderna: faith & reason never be reconciled
Advocated complete separation of faith and reason |
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Duns Scotus
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Stressed that faith was superior to reason
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Theology, philosophy, & Science
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William of Okham "razor's edge logic" eliminate unnecessary information
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Science
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Roger Bacon & Robert Grosseste pioneered experimental system
Nicholas Oresme: heliocentrie belief that earth moved around sun |
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Literature
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Francesco Petrarch: My secret is his battle w/ religious faith
Boccaccio's The Decameron led to today's short stories |
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Literature
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Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the canterberry tales
Represent all walks of medieval society Significance: charchteristics life chances tell their moral values Setting is pilgramage to canterberry |
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Literature
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Christine De Pizan wrote The Book of the City of Ladies
Earns a living through writings Wrote in vernacular First western writer to raise "the women question" Urged woman's education |
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Late Gothic Art & Architecture
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Goal: Push to its extravagant limits
France: Flamboyant style: flame like is key |
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England
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The perpendicular Style: Vertical is key
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Late Gothic
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Greater highets
Elaborate decorations Delicate lacy details |
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Latin Gothic
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Siena Cathedral, Italy
Campanile or bell tower: revived classical ideal of balance |
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Late Gothic Sculpture
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Giovonni Pisano
Pisa Cathedral pulpit Chritian & Classical Ideals |
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Late Gothic Painting & the rise of New Trends
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Illuminated manuscripts: the key Rich hours
Full expression of human emotions Three dimensional art Giotto's painting style led to Renaissance Nonmathmatical perspective |
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Giotto's Lamenation
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Madonna Enthroned
1305-1310 Fresco Examines human nature & emotion |
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Flemish Art Arnolfini Wedding portrait
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Jan Van Eyck 1434, wet on wet glazes on canvas
Flemish National Style: actual event secular, with symbolic realism |
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Music
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Chanson written for one or two voices
Isorthythems : single rhythmic pattern Guillaume de Machaut |
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Historical Legacy
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A shift to a more secular outlook in art
Painting and sculpture began their liberation from architecture New secular monarchs emerged to challenge the churches spiritual and political powers |
