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Chapter 12. Recovery and Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance. Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. p332. Meaning and Characteristics of the Italian Renaissance. Renaissance = Rebirth The work and legacy of Jacob Burkhardt
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Chapter 12 Recovery and Rebirth:The Age of the Renaissance
Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam on the Sistine Chapel ceiling p332
Meaning and Characteristics of the Italian Renaissance • Renaissance = Rebirth • The work and legacy of Jacob Burkhardt • The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860) • Major Features • Urban society • Age of recovery • Rebirth of Greco-Roman culture • Emphasis on individual ability
The Making of Renaissance Society • Economic Recovery • Expansion of trade • Italian cities lose economic supremacy • Hanseatic League • Industries old and new • Textiles, printing, mining, and metallurgy • Banking and the Medici • Florence
Social Changes in the Renaissance • The Nobility (2 – 3 percent of population) • Ideals: Baldassare Castiglione (1478 – 1529) • The Book of the Courtier (1528) • Peasants and Townspeople (85 – 90 percent of population) • Decline of manorialism and serfdom • Urban hierarchy • Patricians, petty burghers, shopkeepers, artisans, guildmasters, guildsmen, workers, and unemployed • Slavery in the Renaissance
Family and Marriage in Renaissance Italy • Marriage • Arranged, to strengthen business or family ties • The importance of the dowry • Father-husband: head of family • Wife managed household • Children • The dangers of childbirth and childhood • Sexual Norms • Disparity in ages of spouses • Extramarital sexual relationships
TheItalian States in the Renaissance • The Five Major States • The north: the duchy of Milan and the republic of Venice • The republic of Florence • The Medici • The Papal States • The Kingdom of Naples • Independent City-States • Urbino • The Role of Women • Isabella d’Este (1474 – 1539)
MAP 12.1 Renaissance Italy Map 12.1 p340
The Italian States in the Renaissance • Warfare in Italy • Fragmentation and the balance of power • France and Spain fight over the peninsula • The Birth of Modern Diplomacy • Resident agents or ambassadors • Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 – 1527) and the New Statecraft • The Prince • Goals: acquisition, maintenance, and expansion of political power
Niccolo Machiavelli p343
The Intellectual Renaissance in Italy • Italian Renaissance Humanism • The emergence of humanism • The studia humanitatis, based on Greco-Roman literature • The importance of Petrarch (1304 – 1374) • Humanism in Fifteenth-Century Italy • Civic Humanism – Florence • Cicero as model • Leonardo Bruni (1370 – 1444) • Growing interest in Greek civilization • Humanist consciousness • Lorenzo Valla (1407 – 1457)
The Intellectual Renaissance in Italy • Italian Renaissance Humanism • Humanism and Philosophy • Marsilio Ficino (1433 – 1499) • Translation of Plato’s dialogues • Synthesis of Christianity and Platonism • Renaissance Hermeticism • Ficino’s Corpus Hermeticum • A new view of humankind: divine creative power • Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463 – 1494) • Oration on the Dignity of Man
The Intellectual Renaissance in Italy • Education in the Renaissance • The subjects and goals liberal studies • History, moral philosophy, eloquence (rhetoric), letters (grammar and logic), poetry, mathematics, astronomy, and music • Was there a Renaissance for women? • Isotta Nogarola and Laura Cereta • Humanism and History • Francesco Guicciardini • The Impact of Printing • Johannes Gutenberg • Movable type and Gutenberg’s Bible (1455 or 1456)
The Artistic Renaissance • Art in the Early Renaissance • Masaccio (1401 – 1428) • A new realism • Perspective and organization • Movement and anatomical structure • Invention at the Medici court: Sandra Botticelli (1445 – 1510) • Donato di Donatello (1386 – 1466) • David • Filippo Brunelleschi (1377 – 1446) • Church of San Lorenzo • Assertion of human individuality: portraits
Donatello, David p352
The Artistic Renaissance • The Artistic High Renaissance • Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519) • Last Supper • Raphael (1483 – 1520) • School of Athens • Michelangelo (1475 – 1564) • The Sistine Chapel • David • Donato Bramante (1444 – 1514) • The Artist and Social Status • The economic rewards of artistic genius
Michelangelo, David p355
The Artistic Renaissance • The Northern Artistic Renaissance • Jan van Eyck (c. 1390 – 1441) • Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride • Albrecht Dürer (1471 – 1528) • Adoration of the Magi • Music in the Renaissance • Guillaume Dufay (c. 1400 – 1474) • The madrigal
The European State in the Renaissance • The Growth of the French Monarchy • Louis XI, the Spider (1461 – 1483) • Territorial expansion and royal control • England: Civil War and a New Monarchy • The Wars of the Roses • The administrative and financial reforms of Henry VII (1485 – 1509)
MAP 12.2 Europe in the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century Map 12.2 p358
The European State in the Renaissance • The Unification of Spain • Isabella of Castile (1474 – 1504) and Ferdinand of Aragón (1479 – 1516) • Establishment of professional royal army • Religious uniformity • The Inquisition • Conquest of Granada • Expulsion of the Jews • The Holy Roman Empire: the Success of the Habsburgs • Dynastic marriage and territorial growth • Maximilian I (1493 – 1519)
MAP 12.3 The Iberian Peninsula Map 12.3 p359
The European State in the Renaissance • The Struggle for Strong Monarchy in Eastern Europe • Poland: conflict between nobility and the crown • Hungary • Matthias Corvinus (1458 – 1490): short-term centralization • Russia • Ivan III (1462 – 1505): overthrow of the Mongols • The Ottoman Turks and the End of the Byzantine Empire • The spread of the Seljuk Turks • Fall of Constantinople to the Turks (1453)
The Church in the Renaissance • The Problem of Heresy and Reform • John Wyclif (c. 1328 – 1384) and Lollardy • The push for a vernacular Bible • Attack on practices not mentioned in Scripture • John Hus (1374 – 1415) and the Hussites • Criticism of worldliness and corruption of the clergy • Burned at the stake (1415) • Reform of the Church • Church councils • Sacrosancta and Frequens
MAP 12.4 The Ottoman Empire and Southeastern Europe Map 12.4 p362
The Church in the Renaissance • The Renaissance Papacy • Julius II (1503 – 1513), “warrior-pope” • Nepotism • Sixtus IV (1471 – 1484) and his nephews • Alexander VI (1492 – 1503) and the Borgias • Patrons of culture • Leo X (1513 – 1521)
Chapter Timeline p365
Discussion Questions • What social and intellectual changes did the Renaissance bring about? • How did Machiavelli deal with the issue of political power? • How did the printing press change European society? • What technical achievements did Renaissance artists make? Why were they significant? • What was the significance of the Wars of the Roses in England? • How did the popes handle the growing problems that were emerging in the Church in the fifteenth and early sixteenth Century?