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32 Cards in this Set
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What is Renaissance?
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The rebirth of sciences and the arts after the decline of the dark Middle Ages, or the rebirth, the construction of classical culture in Western space. Also known as the rediscovery of man.
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Where was the Renaissance?
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possible only in Catholic cultures
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What is Stoicism?
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independence of noble human
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What is Neoplatonism?
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hierarchical order of the universe
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What is Baroque?
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an artistic idiom characterized by "jaggedness of expression, metaphoricity, fierce religiosity, obsession with transcendence and death, allegorism and hermeticism. Sensuality alternating with spasms of conscience, extremes of mysticism, and a fanatical enthusiasm for purity which is at once a distorted image of sexuality."
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How does Baroque affect the Slavs?
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It is the most important cultural movement among Slavs before Romanticism and the first major cultural formation that all Slavs share, on a cosmopolitan level, with West: even Serbia and Russia.
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Theocentrism
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Exuberant re-centering of art's focus on God: an all-pervasive religious coloring.
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Dynamism
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Reveling in complexity and contradiction, heightening of artistic tension, closely bound to the tensions of the age. "Carnival" enters Slavic cultures at this time.
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Disharmonious view of the world and "man"
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Struggle of Good and Evil, spirit and flesh. Viewed through emblems. allegories, and secrets.
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What are the four features of Baroque?
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Theocentrism, Dynamism, Disharmonious view of the world and "man," and emphasis on education.
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What are some achievements of the Baroque?
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Unifies Slavs with Western European culture, Unifies Slavic cultures, Spread of Western learning and literacy ("carnival"), Mass culture - links high to low: literature culture spreads to illiterate population, Very long-lasting Slavic lands
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Who are the Ukrainian Cossacks?
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defenders of Orthodoxy; performers of epic song, duma (played on bandura, multi-stringed plucked instrument)
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What happened in 1573 and what effect did it have?
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(Poland) Religious toleration was introduced. This gave individual lords authority over the churches pm their estates.
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What is reformation?
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Reaction against role of Church in the world. Believes that the Bible is the only word of God.
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What are the 3 Croatian language dialects?
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što-, kaj-, ča-kavian
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What happened in 1848?
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Croats were threatened by Hungarian linguistic nationalism.
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What happened in 1300?
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The Ottoman Empire was founded.
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What happened in 1453?
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Byzantine Empire (Constantinople)
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Devsirme
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"Child Tax"
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What are the differences between the East and West during the Later Middle Ages?
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W: Gothic, soaring vertical architecture, pointer arch: symbolizes power of Church; break with Classical civilization.
E/S: Romanesque, rounded forms; continuation of Classical civilization. W: University Culture, Student life (drinking, fighting, sex), learned poetry:cites Bible in profane way. E: Monastery culture. Learning only in monasteries; schools never institutionalized; learned life: study encyclopedic works. |
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What happened in 800?
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Pope crowned Charlemagne, the Frankish ruler, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
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What happened in 1389?
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The Battle of Kosovo. It is the most important year in Serbian history (shows defeat).
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What defines an Ukrainian epic song/poem?
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Duma
plucked, many stringed instrument variable line length |
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What defines a Serbian epic song/poem?
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Junacka pesma
bowed, single-stringed instrument strict 10 syllable length |
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What path does the spread of Baroque take?
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1. Italy --> Croatia
2. Italy, Spain, France, Germany --> Bohemia, Poland --> Ukraine --> Russia, Serbia |
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What path does the spread of Renaissance take?
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Italy --> Croatia & Poland
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1690
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Serbs rebel against the Ottomans but fail. Large portion of the population migrates into the Austro-Hungarian lands and into Croatia.
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1850
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Vienna agreement - forms a single language based on the Stokavian dialect for Croats.
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1971
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Croatian Spring - student strikes (Soljan is associated)
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1596
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Union of Catholic Orthodox churches in Ukraine.
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1632
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Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
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1648
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the great Ukrainian uprising, led by Bogdan Khmelnytsky, against the state of Poland (economy, society, politics, arts, and attitudes are turned)
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