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The Renaissance

Quaestio : Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy ? Nunc Agenda : Work as a group to fill in the blanks on the Renaissance notes using your knowledge from the recent classwork and homework. The Renaissance.

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The Renaissance

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  1. Quaestio: Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy?NuncAgenda: Work as a group to fill in the blanks on the Renaissance notes using your knowledge from the recent classwork and homework.

  2. The Renaissance • Renaissance- literally meaning “rebirth,” it was a period of European history, beginning in the 14th century in Italy, lasting into the 17th century, and marked by a revival of art, architecture, literature, and learning, inspired by the Classical civilizations of Greece and Rome. • In terms of traditional periodization, European history went from the Classical Age into the Middle Ages and then into Renaissance, though these distinctions were invented later.

  3. Classical Age

  4. Dark Ages

  5. Renaissance

  6. The Renaissance • Socio-Political Upheaval: Great Schism, Black Death, Hundred Years War decreased popoulation, which increased food and job availability, and also led people to question status quo of society • Geography: Italy, especially Venice, well suited for trade, center of Mediterranean

  7. The Renaissance • Socio-Political Upheaval: Great Schism, Black Death, Hundred Years War decreased popoulation, which increased food and job availability, and also led people to question status quo of society • Geography: Italy, especially Venice, well suited for trade, center of Mediterranean • Trade: Increased Mediterranean Trade between Italy and Ottoman Empire • Cultural Diffusion: Rediscovery of Classical knowledge from Andalus/Byzantine/Middle East due to Crusades, PaxMongolica, Ottoman Conquests • History: Italy was the heart of the Classical Roman Empire, wanted to be great again

  8. Renaissance Humanism • Greater focus on secular issues, not only religious issues • Still very religious, but approaching religion with reason rather than blind faith • Admiration and idealization of Classical Greek and Roman culture

  9. Roman Renaissance

  10. Renaissance Humanism • Greater focus on secular issues, not only religious issues • Still very religious, but approaching religion with reason rather than blind faith • Admiration and idealization of Classical Greek and Roman culture • Study of the Humanities, subjects of grammar, rhetoric, poetry, and best of all, HISTORY • Appreciation of the potential of the individual person, especially the potential to create • Fascination with the human physical form and the human experience

  11. Renaissance Misconceptions • Not a rejection of religion, not secularism • People were still very religious (check out the art!) • Not modern individualism • Still deep connection to community life • Not overnight • Revival of Europe took centuries, starting during the late Middle Ages (1000-1300) and continuing until the end of the 1500s • Not in isolation • The Muslim World had a big influence on theRenaissance, from trade to preserved knowledge • Not entirely Light • Religious and political violence continued • Not populated by Ninja Turtles

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