Causes, characteristics and
Consequences of the
Renaissance
1350-1550, starting in Italy
Where did the Renaissance come
from!?!
Crusades / Byzantines /
Spanish Muslims
Rediscovery of
art/literature/math
Black Death
100 Years War
Decline of feudalism
Rise of nation states
Increase in trade
• Hence, it started in Italy…
Moved to
here…
Started
here!!
Comparing the Renaissance to
the Middle Ages….
Middle Ages
Towns were small
Nobles had power
Political instability
Church (weakening)
plague
Little interest in
education/ low literacy
Trade slowed
Renaissance Europe
Urban
City-states
Secular
Increasing wealth
Interest in Roman and
Greek Culture
High regard for human
worth (humanism)
Traded with Byzantine
and Islamic empires
Growth of power to the
King
The School of Athens
Raphael
Caravaggio
Michelangelo
Leonardo da Vinci
During the Renaissance, Belgian physician Andreas Vesalius experimented with
the dissection of human cadavers in order to learn more about human anatomy.
The spirit of curiosity and experimentation that characterized the Renaissance
created a fertile climate for the development of science. Advances were made in
many fields including navigation, astronomy, mathematics and medicine.
Long term effects…
concepts of republicanism and human
freedom
English constitutional theory
source for the form of government adopted
in the United States
left to the world monuments of artistic
beauty that define Western culture
How did the Renaissance affect
Europe?
Poetry
Art
Science
Interest in the outside world
Church out, people in
Did the Renaissance actually
happen?
Kind of
Kind of not