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Moors-Muslims from North Africa
land in Spain |
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732
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Defeated at Poitiers by Charles Martel, Chrlemagne's grandfather
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778
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Roncevaux
The battle that Roland dies |
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800
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Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor
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The Song of Roland
Turoldus (the name found in the Oxford Manuscrpt) |
1100
Poem |
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Gothic
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Pointed arches, soaring, easily adaptable to openings
Flying buttresses (1170) counter the outward thrust of the vault Huge stained glass windows Thick architectural detail Anatomically correct, realistic bodies imitating classical sculpture Dramatic zigzagging folds of cloth St. Denis Notre Dame de Paris Chartres born between 1137 and 1144 in the rebuilding, by Abbot Suger, of the royal Abbey Church of St. Denis just outside of Paris |
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Janson:
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"We can pinpoint the origin of no previous style as exactly that of Gothic It was born between 1137 and 1144 in the rebuilding, by Abbot Suger, of the royal Abbey Church of St. Denis, just outside of Paris."
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Romanesque
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Round Arches
Thick Walls Small Windows Little architectural detail Stylized/ornamental representation of the human body Rounded folds of drapery Square Footprint towers |
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1492
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Fall of Granada
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Abelard
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Paris: 1100
Theologian, professor, poet and musician Castrated:1119 Died: April 1142 Main Opponent: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux |
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Heloise
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Born: 1100/1
Died: May 16, 1163/4 Founded Convent: 1140 |
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By Jean de Meung
Villon also speaks of Heloise and Abelard |
Roman de la Rose Guillaume de Lorris
13th C. H&A are mentioned in the 2nd half! |
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Saw great influx of new knowledge into western Europe- the rediscovery of ancient Greek pholosophy, mathematics, medicine:
Aristotle, Euclid, Ptolemy, etc.. |
12th Century
1100-1200 |
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Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa
Formally granted right and privileges to the students in Bologna, Italy |
1158
And so universities began to take shape as institutions |
For centuries they would not have any buildings of their own, but they would have rules, privileges, organized student and professiorial bodies, recognized degrees, courses of study and processes of examination
1200 the students of Paris were granted privileges under a royal charter from Kink Philip Augustus, and this is the date the university considers its founding |
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Students of Paris were granted privileges under a royal charter from King Philip Augustus
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1200
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Marie de France
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Lanval
12th C. |
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Andreas Capellanus
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On Love (written in Latin)
12th C. |
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Lyric poems by troubadours and trouveres
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William IX, duke of Aquitaine (11-12)
Jaufre Rudel (12) Beatrice countess of Dia (12) Bertran de Born (12-early 13) Arnaut Daniel (12) Charles d'Orleans (15) Francoil Villon (15) |
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Romance of the Rose
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Guillaume de Lorris
Jean de Meung 13th C. |
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Francois Villon
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15th C.
Born: Paris 1431 Master of Arts: 1452 Killed a priest Thrown in jail again 1461 Escaped only through a royal pardon 1462: condemned to death, again pardoned, but he was exiled from Paris for ten years |
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Renaissance
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16th C.
1500s the century AFTER Villon |
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Petrarchs sonnets
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Italy
14th C. 317 sonnets to Laura |
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Dante
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Italian poet
author of the Divine Comedy |
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Humanism
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example, dates, names, titles
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Neoplatonism
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Ficino, leon the Hebrew, others
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Francois I
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portrait by painter Jean and Francois Clouet
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Du Bellay
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Defense and Illustration of the French Language
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Pierre de Ronsard
Joachim du Bellay Jean-Antoine de Baif |
members of the Pleiade
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Mikhail Bakhtin
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Russian literary scholar
1920s/40s Wrote the most important work on Rabelais His theory of "carnivalesque reversal" influence Western scholars William Turner (theorists) and Natalie Zemon Davis (historian) |
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Marguerite de Navarre
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1492-1549
Heptameron like Boccaccio's Decameron (first printed 1558) Older sister of prince Henry de Navarre |
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Michel De Montaigne
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1533-1592
Essays (1580) |
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The Wars of Religion
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1562-1598
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Martin Luther
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Germany
1515 |
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King Henry II
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Accidentally killed in a tournament 1559
His court was described in the opening of the Princess de Cleves Left behind 3 sons, oldest was 15. Widow was Catherine de Medici |
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Henry de Navarre
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Wedding celebration brought vast crowds of Huguenots into Paris. Just after midnight, on August 24th, the feast of saint Bartholemew
1572 Saint Bartholemew's Day Massacre |
Became King Henry IV of France (Henry the Great)
Founded the Bourban dynasty of kings. Assassinated in 1610 Guaranteed Huguenots protection under the edict of Nantes in 1598 |
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Classicism
"Le Grand Siecle" |
17th Century
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Rene Descartes
(1596-1650) |
Metaphysical Meditation, in Latin, first published in 1641
Cogito ergo sum (I think therefor I am) x-y axis, notation of roots and powers in math |
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Marie-Madeleine De La Fayette
1634-1693 |
The Princess of Cleves
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Classical Theater
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3 Unities: Time, Place, Character
Bienseances: term for what can and cannot happen on stage No death, blood, sex, or defecating allowed Alexandrian: 12 syllables relied heavily on what was said rather than actions or props |
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Racine (1639-1699) Phaedra
Corneille Moliere (1622-1673) Tartuffe |
Tragedy
Comedy |
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Three most famous playwright in the seventeenth century
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Moliere
Racine Corneille |
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Montaingne
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Essays
1580 |
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Wars of religion
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Henry de Navarre
Catherine de Medici 1515 Martin Luther Bartholomew Day massacre August 24th 1572 |
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Abbot Suger
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Introduced Gothic architectural style in the abbey church of St. Dennis near Paris.
lived in the 12th century |
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Roland
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1100
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Lanval
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12th Century
Marie de France |
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Abelard and Heloise
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12th century
1101-1164 |
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On Love
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Andreas Capellanus
12th Century (Flaws of women) |
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Spring Song
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William IX Duke of Aquitaine
1071-1127 (Love like weather) |
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Genre of The Butcher of Aveville
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Fabliau
Short narrative in verse between 300-400 lines Comic or satiric Flourished in the 12th and 13th Century |
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Love Song
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Jaufre Rudel
12th Century (Sex) |
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A Lovers Prize
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Beatrice, Countess of Dia
1150-1200 (In love w/ knight) |
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In Praise of War
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Bertran de Born 1140-1215
(War loving...) |
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The Wound of Love
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Heinrich Von Morungen
1150-1222 (bitter refusal of love) |
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Aubade
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Anonymous
14th C. Daybreak is coming |
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Balade
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Charles D'Orleans
1394-1465 Buying kisses |
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Maurice Sceve
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1500-1564
French Poet |
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Defense and Illustration of the French Language
1549 |
It's a manifesto, it's a document that's intended to change ideas/behavior/society (In this case the French language)
Du Bellay (1522-1560) |
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Huguenot leaders: Admiral de Coligny and Henry de Navarre
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Catholic leaders: Duke de Guise, Jean Perissin and Jacques Tortorel
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Francois Rabelais
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Author of Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532)
In his story he completely redefines church and education by allowing the people in his stories to do exactly what the church forbade 1494-1553/4 |
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Charlemagne's Grandfather
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732 defeated at Poitiers by Charles Martel
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Roncevaux
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778
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Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor
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800
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Fall of Granada
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1492
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Bienseances
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what is and isn't allowed on stage
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Aristotle's
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Poetics
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Three Unities
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Place, time, action
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Nicolas Fouquet
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Patron of the novelist mlle de Scudery, the novelist and playwright Scarron, the poet Perrault, the tragedian Corneille, Moliere, La Fontaine
Vaux-le-Vicomte |
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King Louis XIV
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1638-1715
1661 took over the thrown in his own name after the death of the prime minister August 17, 1661 visited Fouquet 19 days later he had Fouquet jailed because he felt insulted Made conscious effort to set fashion Had the 3 artist Fouquet used to build the Versailles palace Forced nobles to visit Promised to pay dept and never seize property of people who built near Versailles ABSOLUTE MONARCHY |
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La Fontaine
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1621-1695
Fables |
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Versailles
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Le Notre-gardens
Louis Le Vau Jules Hardouin-Mansart (architects) Charles Le Brun (Painter) |
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Lully
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1632-1687
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Middle Ages
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A period from the 5-15th century.
The period followed the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 |
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Renaissance
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A cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14-17th century
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Monastery at Cluny
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910
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Scriptoria: rooms where monks could copy books by hand (handwritten books are called manuscripts)
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Education took place in monasteries
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Universities of Paris
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1200
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Peter Abelard
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Refuted the arguments of his professors
Set up his own schools |
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Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
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1090
Opposed the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, considering it a distraction from God |
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15th C. humanists
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Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) political therorist
Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) pornographer Giovanni Boiardo poets Ludovico Ariosto Baldassare Castiglione (1478-1529) author of the manual of courtier conduct Aldo Manuzio printer (1450-1515) Thomas More (1478-1535) |
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Shakespear's Romeo and Juliet
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First published 1597
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Rediscovery of the Greek and Roman Classical periods
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begun in the 13th C. the age of the universities
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La Pleaiade
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A group of 7 poets:
Ronsard, du Bellay, Baif... studied under Dorat and then gave themselves the mission of renewing the French language and its poetry |
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Jean de La Fontaine
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1621-1695
became a lawyer Married Marie Hericart (distant relative of Racine) Sometime around 1657 he met Fouquet Poem: Adonis (1658) 1668 published his Fables Accepted into the Academie Francaise (French Acadamy) |
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