Ring Around the Rosie
Nursery Rhyme
 Spread of Black Death
Interactive Map:
http://wadsworth.cengage.com/history_
d/templates/student_resources/0534600
069_spielvogel/InteractiveMaps/swfs/m
ap11_1.html
 Black Death Song: “Fleas on
Rats”
http://www.schooltube.com/video/ccc6a
8f747a2ed3db3c6/
 The Plague Video:
http://www.history.com/topics/blackdeath/videos#coroners-report-plague
Common British versions include:
Ring-a-ring o' roses,
A pocket full of posies,
A-tishoo! A-tishoo!
We all fall down.
Common American versions
include:
Ring-a-round the rosie,
A pocket full of posies,
Ashes! Ashes!
We all fall down.
The last two lines are sometimes
varied to:
Hush! Hush! Hush! Hush!
We've all tumbled down.
 Population of N. Europe beginning to recover
 Previous serfs now able to “break free” and
demand higher wages
 Sparks of creativity and new inventions
 Cities growing
 Urban merchants become wealthy & sponsor
artists
 Most people were VERY religious, but too many were
suffering & dying! Started to pull away from the
Catholic Church
 Looking to SECULAR (worldly)
ideals of the here and now vs. life
after death
 Begin studying HUMANISM: study of human
potential & achievement
 Explosion of creativity in Europe
 Renaissance or “rebirth”
of art & learning
 Began in Italy & spread north to Europe because:
 Thriving cities
 Wealthy merchants
 Greek & Roman heritage (classical)
 Trade started by Crusades
 Wealthiest/powerful class
& dominated politics
 Wealth based on success of their business
 Felt they deserved power based on achievements
 Florence, Italy ruled by MEDICI family
(trade/banking merchants) for 30 years
 Lorenzo the Magnificent: major PATRON
(supporter) of the arts
 Renaissance is bringing back classical
art & literature from Greek & Roman
times
 In Italy, now painting/sculpting
SECULAR arts, NOT RELIGIOUS arts
 more realistic people in classical
settings
 3 Dimensional
 Distant objects are smaller
 Helps objects to look more realistic; 3-D look
VS
 Study of human anatomy to paint and sculpt better
 More natural postures and expressions
 DONATELLO: sculptor and painter;
 Revealed personality in his art
 One of the first to do a nude statue
 First bronze statue of St. Louis of Toulouse
 LEONARDO DA VINCI: painter, sculptor,
inventor, & scientist  a true “Renaissance Man”
 Mona Lisa
 The Last Supper
 MICHELANGELO: sculptor and painter
 Sistine Chapel
 Statue of David
 RAPHAEL studied from Michelangelo and Leonardo;
painter
 Madonna and Child
 School of Athens
 ERASMUS:
 The Praise of Folly – said to
improve society, all should
study Bible
 MORE:
 Utopia – imaginary land inhabited by
peaceful people; no use for money;
means “no place”, but in English means
“ideal place”
 WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
 Greatest playwright of all time: sonnets, plays,
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essays
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Othello
Macbeth
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Julius Caesar
King Lear
 Chinese 1st invent block printing
 JOHANN GUTENBERG: reinvents moveable
type & comes up with printing press
 Gutenberg Bible: first full size book printed
 Came in English, French, and German 
VERNACULAR (own language) increased
 Can produce 100’s of copies
 Encouraged people to learn to read!  RISE
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