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McKay - CHAPTER 13: European Society in the Age of the Renaissance
RENAISSANCE QUESTIONS
Use the terms and people below to answer the following questions. All these terms must
be utilized in at least one response to these questions. These questions do not need to be
formally written, responses must be bulleted, but all terms must be throroughly identified.
Be certain to provide a thesis statement for each response.
1. To what extent was the Renaissance a secular movement?
2. Describe changes in painting, poetry, architecture and sculpture that arose during
the Renaissance. How did these cultural achievements reflect the values of
Renaissance society?
3. Describe the position of women during the Renaissance?
4. To what extent is the term "Renaissance" a valid concept for a distinct period in
modern European history?
5. Explain the ways in which the Italian Renaissance humanism transformed ideas
about the individual's role in society.
6. "The secular humanism of the Italian Renaissance reflected the modern world
while the Christian humanism of the Northern Renaissance compromised between
medievalism and modernity. “Defend or refute this statement.
7. "Although the term "Renaissance" is misleading, the modern world began with
Renaissance secularism and individualism." Assess the validity of this statement.
8. Explain why Machiavelli's The Prince is both one of the most misinterpreted
books of modern times and the first modern treatise in political science.
9. Discuss how Renaissance ideas are expressed in the Italian art of the period,
referring to specific works and artists.
10. Analyze the influence of humanism on the visual arts in the Italian Renaissance.
Use at least three specific works to support your analysis.
11. Using at examples from at least two different states, analyze the key features of
the “new monarchies” and the factors responsible for their rise in the period 1450
to 1550.
RENAISSANCE PEOPLE
Petrarch
Boccaccio
Lorenzo Valla
Giovanni Pico Della Mirandola
Machiavelli
Castiglione
Michelangelo
Raphael
Donatello
Leo X
Medici Family
Charles VII (France)
Charles VIII (France)
Louis XI (France)
Ferdinand of Aragon
Jan van Eyck
Botticelli
Jerome Bosch
Erasmus
Thomas More
Francois Rabelais
Holbein the Younger
Durer
Leon Alberti
Brunelleschi
Ghiberti
Masaccio
Laura Cereta
Leonardo
Henry VII (England)
Henry VIII (England)
Isabella of Castille
Pietro Aretino
Artemesia Gentileschi
Titian
Miguel de Cervantes
RENAISSANCE TERMS
Humanism
Civic Pride
Taille
Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges
Sistine Chapel
Northern Renaissance
Communes
Movable Type
War of the Roses
Star Chamber
Conversos
Hermandandes
Utopia
Gabelle
Secular
Classical
Papal States
Christian Humanism
Oligarchy
Concordant of Bologna
Parliament
Reconquista
Inquisition
100 Years War