The European Renaissance and Reformation
1300-1600
THE MIDDLE AGES: (CAUSES OF THE RENAISSANCE/BUILD UP)
The Age of Faith
The Age of Chivalry
Ending of the Age of Faith
Avignon
The Great Schism
The Bubonic Plague
The Hundred Years’ War
End of Hundred Years’ War
The Longbow—
Joan of Arc—
The Crusades:
The
Feudal
Pyramid
Feudalism:
The Decline of Feudalism:
THE RENAISSANCE
Renaissance:
Setting the Stage:
The Renaissance
Medici Bank and Family:
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Date:____________________
The most respected bank of its time during its prime
Was based in Florence, then spread to parts _________________________________________________
Because of wealth, ________________________________________________ in Florence, then
throughout Europe (in different forms)
o Ex: _______________________________________________
Patrons for ________________________________________________
Funded huge amounts of ____________________________________ art and architecture
Pleasure:
Upper Class Women:
Arts:
Upper Class Men:
Humanism:
Changing
Values
Revolutionized
Art
Perspective:
Humanism Displayed:
Vanishing Point
Famous Male Artists:
Michelangelo—
Famous Women Artists:
Anguissola—
Leonardo da Vinci—
Gentileschi—
Raphael—
Revolutionized Writing
Francesco Petrarch
Giovanni Boccaccio
Niccolo Machiavelli
A Woman of Influence
RESULTS OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE:
THE NORTHERN RENAISSANCE (in Northern Europe)
1. Why does the Renaissance matter now?
Setting the Stage:
2. How did Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael show the Renaissance spirit in their art (3 things)?
3. What types of people would visit Italy, return to their homeland and spread the Renaissance beyond Italy?
The Northern Renaissance Begins
4. Why did European population decline in the late 1300s?
5. What two countries fought in the Hundred Years’ War?
6. As wealth increased in Northern Europe, so did _____________________________.
7. Northern traditions made the Italian Renaissance and Northern Renaissance slightly different. One example of a
difference between artists was that northern artists were interested in _________________________________ (the
style of representing familiar things as they actually are).
Artistic Ideas Spread
8. Why did some Italian artists leave Italy for Northern Europe?
German and Flemish Painters
9. *Fill in the table below.
Name:
Nationality What did he do? (Give
details if there are some!)
Albrecht
Durer
Significance? (Some have more than one, some will
have none)
Hans
Holbein
Jan van
Eyck
Pieter
Bruegel
Northern Writers Try to Reform Society
10. How did Christian humanism begin and what was its focus?
11. *Fill in the table below. CHRISTIAN HUMANISTS:
Name
Nationality
Famous Work
Desiderius Erasmus
Thomas More
12. What does utopia mean in English? (DO NOT USE “no place”)
Women’s Reforms
13. What was different about Christine de Pizan when compared to other women of that time?
14. Using the excerpt of The Book of The City of Ladies, in your own words, explain what she is saying.
The Elizabethan Age
15. The Renaissance in England is known as the ______________________________ named after who?
16. Who was the most famous writer of this time? List three of his most famous plays.
Printing Spreads Renaissance Ideas
17. Why was movable type practical for Europeans but not the Chinese?
Gutenberg Improves the Printing Process
18. Why was Gutenberg’s printing press significant?
The Legacy of the Renaissance
19. The European Renaissance shifted focus from around the ______________________ and also gave rise of
_____________________________________.
20. *Fill in the table below. CHANGES IN SOCIETY AND ARTS BECAUSE OF THE RENAISSANCE
CHANGES IN THE ARTS
CHANGES IN SOCIETY
THE REFORMATION
Reformation:
Causes of Reformation:
Social
Political
1. The Renaissance values
of humanism and
secularism led people to
________________ the
Church.
2. The printing press helped
to spread ideas
_________________ of
the Church.
3. Powerful __________
5. European princes and
challenged the Church
kings were __________
as the supreme power
of the Church’s wealth.
in Europe.
6. Merchants and others
4. Many leaders viewed
________________
the pope as a
having to pay taxes to
_______________ ruler
the Church.
and challenged his
authority.
Criticism of the Church:
Corrupt
leader/Examples
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Corruption
Practiced
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Economic
Religious
7. Some Church leaders had
become _______________
and _________________
8. Many people found Church
practices such as the sale of
______________________
unacceptable.
Martin Luther/The Reformation Begins:
Lutherans:
The German Peasants’ Revolt:
First Diet of Spyer (1526)/Second Diet of Spyer (1529):
Peace of Augsburg (1555):
Reform in Other Countries:
The “Anabaptists”
The “Defender of Faith”/The Act of Supremacy
The Following Four Monarchs of England:
Queen Elizabeth I:
The Catholic Reformation:
The Huguenots/Catherine de Medici:
Paul III:
The Council of Trent:
Pope Paul IV:
Outcome of the Reformation