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Setting the Stage: The Black Death

mojonathan181 — 2013-09-26 06:51:15 UTC

The Bubonic Plague killed over 25 million people in Europe. The tremendous death and suffering caused by it made people lose faith in the Church and the Feudal system collapsed even faster.

Victims of the Black Death

mojonathan181 — 2013-09-26 07:13:39 UTC

Toggenburg Bible

Where did it start?

mojonathan181 — 2013-09-26 07:18:12 UTC

The City-States of Italy

The Renaissance

mojonathan181 — 2013-09-26 07:20:48 UTC

in English this means rebirth. It was originally a French word that was used to describe this time from the late 1300 to the 1600s. The people of Europe began to revive art and learning. They believed that for far too long knowledge and learning was being restricted by the Catholic Church. People wanted to study the writings, art, science and philosophy of the Ancient Greeks and Romans and lived the way they did. Also some people began to question the authority of the Church and their faith in God after seeing so much suffering during the Black Death.

Why did it start in the City-States of Italy?

mojonathan181 — 2013-09-26 07:24:38 UTC

These places were centers of over-seas trade. People exchanged goods, knowledge and ideas here; changes in culture almost always start in the cities. The rest of Europe was still mostly rural. What did the City-States of Italy trade?

Humanism - There are several key Points about it.

mojonathan181 — 2013-09-28 09:12:14 UTC

It is a belief that people should focus on human potential and achievement.

People should study and assess things based on reasoning and empirical evidence. For example when people started to read scrolls about Philosophy, science, culture, religion and other topics from the Ancient Greeks and Romans, they read them and assessed these writings based on whether or not they made sense. You do not throw a scroll away just because it is something that is written by a person who was not Christian.

People became much more interested in studying the Classics and wanted to learn new things and do things in a different way.

The focus on the potential of the human individual, reason, logic, science and move to secular culture was very radical.

New Science and Art

mojonathan181 — 2013-09-28 09:20:36 UTC

Rediscovery of Roman Architecture and Renaissance Ingenuity allowed this to be built. This is the biggest dome at the time. Who built this? This person also started to build using methods from Ancient Rome and Greece and develop new ways of building things. Architecture started to become much better.

How people felt about life after the Black Death

mojonathan181 — 2013-09-28 09:41:17 UTC

Pieter Bruegel's The Triumph of Death (c. 1562)

The Medici Family - The Godfathers of the Renaissance

mojonathan181 — 2013-09-28 10:13:13 UTC

They were merchants, who gradually gained control of Florence in the 1400's. For many generations from Giovanni Medici (1360 – 1429) to Lorenzo the Magnificent (1449 – 1492) to Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1519 – 1574) They were patrons to many artists, painters, writers, scientists and architects who created many of the Great Works of the Renaissance. As Patrons they provided money, protection and freedom for their Client artists to innovate and do their work.

Donatello's Bronze David

mojonathan181 — 2013-09-28 10:36:36 UTC

First time a fully nude, free standing bronze statue has been cast since Ancient Rome. Art that showed the full human body, focused on beauty, that is life like and realistic started to appear more often. Also this statue was seen as being Homoerotic and Florence was infamous for sodomy...could Donatello have made this without Medici protection and patronage?

Gutenberg Printing Press

mojonathan181 — 2013-09-28 10:58:18 UTC

This allowed knowledge to become more widely available. Books are now cheaper, people can read things on their own in their own language, think freely and challenge traditional ways.

Who were some of the most important artists, thinkers, scientists and great people of the Renaissance

mojonathan181 — 2013-09-28 13:24:51 UTC

What is a Renaissance Man?

mojonathan181 — 2013-09-28 13:38:40 UTC

Why do people want to change the way the live and do things at this time?

mojonathan181 — 2013-09-28 13:38:59 UTC

PBS - The Godfathers of the Reinssance

mojonathan181 — 2014-11-30 08:26:20 UTC