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Intro to the Renaissance: The Late Middle Ages

Intro to the Renaissance: The Late Middle Ages. c. 1300 – c. 1500. Economy and society. Government : centralized? Economy: agriculture? Commerce? Values and relationship among social classes? . Role of the Church. Religious? Political? Cultural?. TIMOR DEI PRINCIPIUM SAPIENTIAE.

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Intro to the Renaissance: The Late Middle Ages

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  1. Intro to the Renaissance: The Late Middle Ages c. 1300 – c. 1500

  2. Economy and society • Government : centralized? • Economy: agriculture? Commerce? • Values and relationship among social classes?

  3. Role of the Church • Religious? • Political? • Cultural? TIMOR DEI PRINCIPIUM SAPIENTIAE

  4. Role of the Church • Role of the Church: • Religious: • Political: • Cultural: • salvation, fight against heresy • upper clergy: aristocrats, landowners. Great economic and political power • education, keepers of Classical knowledge

  5. Pagan World • Views of the Classical (Pagan) world: positive?

  6. Pagan World • Views of the Classical world: • Classical world is PAGAN in a world dominated by Christian values. • Some aspects of the Classical world are imitated but Christianized, others are suppressed.

  7. The Black Death • First appeared in Italy in 1347 and spread to the rest of Europe. • It killed more than a third of Europe’s seventy million people.

  8. The Black Plague

  9. The Black Plague

  10. The Black Plague Danse macabre 1 Danse macabre 2 • I Spy • A king • A soldier • A couple of lovers • A noble woman • A peasant woman

  11. Consequences of the Black Death: • Depopulation • Migration to cities: revitalization of urban life • Opportunities for class mobility: demand of workers • Dislocation of social order and social clashes • Rising secularism • End of feudalism in many areas

  12. Terminology • Medieval? Middle Ages? • Renaissance?

  13. Terminology • Medieval: (Lat) medium aevum middle age • Renaissance: Re-birth (of the Classical World) • (It: Rinascimento, <Lat nascor, natum (to be born), French: Renaissance) • From the point of view of the people of the Renaissance the Middle Ages is the period between the Classical World and its rebirth in their time.

  14. Terminology

  15. 3. Renaissance vs. Medieval Art: A

  16. 3. Renaissance vs. Medieval Art: A

  17. 3. Renaissance vs. Medieval Art. B

  18. 3. Renaissance vs. Medieval Art: B

  19. 3. Renaissance vs. Medieval Art: C

  20. 3. Renaissance vs. Medieval art: C

  21. 3. Renaissance vs. Medieval Art: D

  22. 3-Renaissance vs. Medieval Art: D

  23. 3. Renaissance vs. Medieval Art : E

  24. 3. Renaissance vs. Medieval Art: F

  25. 3. Renaissance vs. Medieval Art: G

  26. 4. Florence Baptistery (1401-1402)

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