Download Renaissance Society and Humanist Culture

AP European History
Assignment Sheet
Name: ________________________
Due Date: ____________
Topic 2
Renaissance Society and Humanist Culture
READINGS
Textbook pages: 413 - 447
Additional Readings: Petrarch, Erasmus, Bruni, Machiavelli, da Vinci,
Shakespeare
SCHEDULE
9/6
QUIZ 1
Intro to Renaissance Humanism
Petrarch
9/10
The Politics of Renaissance Italy
413 – 422 & 441 – 447, Bruni, Machiavelli
9/12
MAP Quiz, Northern Renaissance
438 – 441, Shakespeare, Erasmus
9/14
Renaissance Art (Italian v. Northern)
422 – 438, da Vinci
9/18
New Monarchs, Women during the Renaissance
9/20
RENAISSANCE TEST (Assignment Sheet 2 Due)
MAIN THEMES
1. The culture of the Renaissance was produced within a dynamic society
of Italian cities. Humanism was at the core of this culture.
2. Northern culture remained more medieval and centered upon the
court, the chivalric knight, and the theme of decay.
3. An analytical and pietistic approach characterized religious
developments in the north.
4. The fine arts, supported by laymen, advanced magnificently in the
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
5. Foundations for the later scientific revolution were formed during this
period.
KEY INDIVIDUALS
1. Francesco
Petrarch
2. Lorenzo de
Medici
3. Niccolo
Machiavelli
4. Miguel
Cervantes
5. Michelangelo
6. William
Shakespeare
7. Leonardo da
Vinci
8. Desiderius
Erasmus
AP European History
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IDENTIFICATION
1. Oligarchies
2. Castiglione
3. Gallican
Liberties
4. Papal States
5. TMNT
6. War of the
Roses
7. Savonarola
8. Giotto
9. Star Chamber
10. Humanism
11. Christian
humanists
12. reconquista
13. Individualism
14. Inquisition
15. converse
16. Secularism
17. Francois
Rabelais
18. Giovanni
Boccaccio
19. Jan van Eyck
20. Benvenuto
Cellini
21. Louis XI
(France)
22. Henry VII
(England)
23. Quattrocento
24. printing press
25. Ferdinand of
Aragon
26. clock
27. Miser, Spider,
Fox
MAJOR QUESTIONS
1.
2.
3.
4.
Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy rather than north of the Alps?
Why was Florence the site of the first cultural flowering in Italy?
Describe the political conditions in fifteenth century Italy.
What were the major characteristics of Italian Renaissance art and
literature? Be able to identify some of the major Renaissance figures and
examples of their work.
5. What exactly is Renaissance humanism?
6. How did the church react to the new Renaissance attitudes?
7. Describe education in the Renaissance.
8. In what ways did Machiavelli’s political ideas reflect Renaissance
attitudes?
9. What was the impact of movable type printing on society?
10. How did the Renaissance impact women?
11. How were blacks viewed in Renaissance Europe?
12. What are the distinctive characteristics of Northern Renaissance art and
literature?
13. What methods were used by Renaissance monarchs to centralize their
power?
14. In what ways was the Renaissance strikingly different from the Middle
Ages?
15. In what ways was the Renaissance an evolutionary continuation of the
Middle Ages?