Kevin Young

Mr. Haskell

History E-core

27 October 2004

Chapter 14 Outline

 

1. What Was the Renaissance

A. This was a time of change in many areas.

B. People were eager to explore the richness and variety of human experience in the here and now world, unlike medieval scholars who concentrated on nature of life after death.

C. The Renaissance supported a spirit of adventure and a wide-ranging curiosity that led people to explore new worlds

 

2. Italian Begins

A. The Renaissance began in Italy in the mid 1300s and spread to the north and the rest of Europe, it reached its height in the 1500s.

B. In the 1400s the Medici family of Florence organized a banking business then expanded to mining, wool manufacturing, and more.

C. Lorenzo held Florence together in difficult times and a patron, which was a supporter of the arts

 

3.Humanism

A. This was the study that was based on the worldly subjects rather than religious ones.

B. Humanists believed that education should stimulate the individual’s creative powers.

C. Francesco Petrarch was a Florentine who lived from 1304 to 1374, he was an early Renaissance humanist.

 

4. A Golden Age in the Arts

A. The most glorious expression in the Renaissance was its paintings, sculptures, and architecture, which was due to the generous patrons.

B.  Renaissance artists studied ancient Greek and Roman works reviving many classical forms, one sculptor responsible for this was Donatello.

C. Renaissance artists learned the rules of perspective, making objects farther away smaller than the objects closer to the picture.

 

5. Writing for the New Age

A. Many how to books began to show up so anybody who was ambitious enough could learn more and rise in the renaissance world.

B.  Niccolo Machiavelli had a book called the Prince published in 1513, he combined personal experience and his knowledge of the past to offer a guide to rulers on how to gain and maintain power.

C. Critics attacked Machiavelli’s books saying they were inspired by the devil, his work still sparks questions about the nature of government to this day.

 

6.Artists of the Northern Renaissance

A. The Northern Renaissance began in the 1400s in the prosperous cities of Flanders, a region including present France, Belgium and the Netherlands.

B. Jan and Hubert van Eycks stand out as the great artists of Flanders, they developed oil paints as well.

C. Peter Paul Rubens created a larger and luster style of Flemish painting, this style blended realistic traditions of the Flemish painters and the classical themes of the Italian Renaissance.

 

7.Northern Humanists

A. Northern European humanists stressed education and the revival of classics much like the Italian humanists, but they also stressed the importance of religious themes.

B. Desiderius Erasmus a great Dutch humanist used his knowledge of the classical language to produce a New Greek edition of the New Testatment.

C. Sir Thomas Moore pressed for social and economic reform, he also described an ideal society were men and women live in a Utopia.

 

 

8.Literature of the Northern Renaissance

A. Shakespeare had a towering figure of Renaissance literature; he was an English poet and wrote 37 plays that are still practiced today.

B. The best known work of the Renaissance in Spain was Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes in the 1600s.

C. Rebellious, the French humanist Francois Rebellious had a vied career as a monk, physician, Greek scholar, and author.

 

9.The Printing Revolution

A. The work of the renaissance reached a large number of people due to the Printing press

B. In 1456, Johann Gutenberg of Mainz, Germany printed a bible with a printing press that had moveable type.

C. This development made the availability of books more wide spread and cheaper which made more people learn to read.

 

10. Abuses in the Church

A. During the late Middle Ages churches bean to get caught up in worldly affairs, popes competed with Italian princes for political power.

B. By the late 1400s indulgence could be obtained with the donation of money to the church.

C. Popes were also patrons, supporting artists to beautify churches; they also raised the prices of marriages and baptism to help rebuild the cathedral of St. Peters.

 

11.Luther’s Protest

A. In the year 517 protests against the church turned into a revolt, which was led by a German monk Martin Luther.

B. Luther was originally slated by his father to become a lawyer, but was knocked to the ground by lightning then prayed to St. Anne for help saying if he were sparred that he would become a monk.

C. In 1521 the church excommunicated Luther due to his 95 Thesis and will on not giving up his views.

 

12.Spread of Lutheran Ideas

A. Lutheranism gained widespread support since many saw it as the answer to the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church.

B. Peasants took up Luther’s banner in hope to gain his support for social and economic change as well as religious reform.

C. The Peace of Augsburg was signed in 1555 allowing each prince to decide on Catholic or Lutheran as a religion

 

 

13.John Calvin

A. He preached pre determination, which meant that god already determined who would gain salvation.

B. Calvin was born in France and was trained to be a lawyer and priest and in 1536 he published his book Institutes of the Christian Religion.

C. He taught that God was all powerful and that humans were sinful by nature, also saying God was the only one that decided who would achieve eternal life.

 

 

14.Radical Reformers

A. The Reformation continued hundreds of new sects developed and they had ideas that were even more radical than the ideas of Luther and Calvin

B. Groups of people that felt baptism should only be allowed for adults were known as Anabaptists.

C. Some of the Anabaptist’s wanted radical social change and some wanted to abolition private property, however most were peaceful women and men.

 

15.The English Reformation

A. The final break of the Catholic Church was not from religious leaders but from THE English king Henry VIII.

B. King Henry VIII was unhappy with his marriage and asked the pope for an annul which canceled the marriage since the church didn’t allow divorce.

C. The act of supremacy was passed in 1534 and made Henry “the only supreme head on Earth of the Church of England”.

 

16.Elizabeth I Restores Unity to England

A. She adopted a policy of religious compromise and moved cautiously at first but soon attacked anyone who protested.

B. English replaced Latin as the language of the Anglican Church service under Elizabeth’s rule.

C. England escaped the religious wars that tore apart other European states in the 1500s, due to her strong rule.

 

17.The Catholic Reformation

A. The leader of the Catholic reformation was Pope Paul III, he set out to restore moral authority in the churches.

B. He established the Council of Trent in 1545, this established the direction that the reform should take.

C. Pope Paul strengthened the inquisition, which was the churches court that that was supposed to root out the heresies.

 

18.Widespread Persecution

A. Between 1450 and 1750 thousands of men and women were killed in the which-hunting craze, people accused were usually accused of being agents of the devil.

B. The Jews were encouraged to convert and in Venice Jews were forced to live in a separate part of the city called the ghetto starting in 1516.

C. By the 1550s Pope Paul IV made the policy of allowing Jews to stay in Italy obsolete, which made Jews migrate to Poland-Lithuania and parts of the Ottoman Empire.

 

19.Looking Ahead

A. Wars of religion were sparked in Europe until the mid-1600s due to the Catholic and Protestant reformation.

B. Catholic and Protestant rulers often made decisions based on political interests and not religious reasons.

C. Issues of religion began to give way to issues of national power.

 

20.Changing Views of the World

A. Nicolaus Copernicus was a scholar that proposed the theory of the sun being the center of the universe.

B. Tycho Brahe was a Danish astronomer that provided evidence that supported Copernicus’s theory.

C. Galileo Galilei was able to observe the craters and imperfection of the moon and other planets with the use of his telescope.

 

21.Newton Ties It All Together

A. He was a student that went to Cambridge University in England and developed a theory at the age of 24 on why the planets move the way they do.

B. Newton said that a single force makes the planets orbit around the sun in the way that they do and that was gravity.

C. In the year 1687 Newton published a book Mathematical Principals of Natural Philosophy, this book explained how the universe worked and the law of gravity.

 

22.More Scientific Advances

A. During the 1600s Robert Boyle distinguished the differences between elements and chemical compounds.

B. In 1543 Andreas Vesalius published the first accurate book on the anatomy of the human body.

C. Early in the 1600s an English scholar named William Harvey described the circulation of blood explaining that the heart acts as a pump.

 

23.Bacon and Descartes

A. Both of these men thought that Aristotle’s scientific assumption was wrong, they also challenged the tradition of the medieval universities.

B. They opened the way to the enlightenment of the 1700s by there pioneering ways of thinking.

C.  Bacon wanted the science to make peoples lives easier and better by leading to practical technologies.

 

 

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