Ap Euro Flashcards
(266 cards)
Period 1 years
1450-1648
Causes of Italian Renaissance
-population recovered after Bubonic Plague
-stronger monarchs who brought stability to EU nations
-rediscovery of greco-roman works through Arab Scholars
Middle Ages
-time between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance
-revolved around God/Church
-EU started rediscovering/utilizing classical knowledge as classical texts came through Italian city states
Center for Renaissance
Italy, specifically Florence and Venice
Petrarch
-influenced by classical texts and their emphasis on regular life
-father of humanism
-analyzed texts for history of language and focused on people behavior
-wrote stories based on love/hate/sadness painting a far more realistic picture of life rather than stories based on God
Renaissance humanism
study of humanities (art,philosophy,history,etc)
Humanism
emphasizes value/agency of human beings utilizing critical thinking/evidence
Secularism
Separating state and religion, focused on non-religious text, rejection of religion
Individualism
focus on personal life rather than church
Lorenzo Valla
Renaissance humanist, accidently found out CC forged Constantine’s donated land grants because of anachronistic language used
Changes in education during renaissance
-new courses focused on classics (Humanities aka liberal arts)
-challenged power of CC, humanists advocated for religious reform
Giovanni Boccaccio
-wrote the Decameron
-described that regular people are normal rather than perfect/heroic like traditional work
Civic Humanism
applied secularism to political life, promoted idea of participation in government/political sphere
Baldassare Castiglione
-secularist
-wrote The Book of the Courtier, said a good courtier should be well educated in humanities and also engaged in civic life by serving a ruler
Niccolo Machiavelli
-secularist
-wrote the Prince (separate morality from power, written to impress Medici family in Florence)
-one of the first Renaissance thinkers to question the role of government (argue that the way of ruling in Middle Ages where politics were ruled by a Christian king was ineffective and that an effective ruler would us whatever means necessary to obtain/run a kingdom
Christian Humanism
Renaissance impacted religious life, thinkers began reading classical Christian texts (Bible/St. Augustine), instead of focusing on pleasing the church, these thinkers focused on individual, spiritual life/relationship with God
Erasmus
-Christian/Northern humanist
-Catholic
-Praise of Folly
-agreed Christianity should serve as a guiding moral philosophy, not a stern set of rules
-wrote about corruption of CC, led to questioning of church and its power
-believed disciplined study of classics/bible was best way to reform society and individuals
Thomas Moore
-Christian humanist
-Utopia
-agreed Christianity should serve as a guiding moral philosophy, not a stern set of rules
-wrote about corruption of CC, led to questioning of church and its power
Jean Bodin
-agreed with Erasmus and Machiavelli
-secularist
-believed the CC shouldn’t be involved in EU politics
-advocated for strong, centralized government with no church involvement
Printing Press
-invented by Johannes Gutenberg in 1450
-led to printing cheaper and more widely accessible
-more people now reading the bible led to Christian humanism in N EU
-printing press gave new power/influence to elites and church and state who could now popularize viewpoints freely/widely in N Renaissance
Naturalism
shift away from awkward proportions of medieval art
Geometric perspective
used math to created 2 dimensional paintings, brough depth/better proportions to art
Patrons
wealthy Italian families/CC commissioned art/architecture to promote power (EX: Medici family sponsored michelangelo, botticelli, and Brunelleschi’s dome)
Impact of humanism on art
-emphasized regular people, rather than God
-used classical figures, architecture, and style