World History Unit 1

Renaissance and Reformation

Student Objectives • 1. I can define the term Renaissance and explain why the term was used to

describe this historical period.

• 2. I can explain the causes and effects of the Renaissance and its impact upon history then and now.

• 3. I can identify the major artistic, literary, and intellectual figures of the Renaissance and explain the significance of their achievements.

• 4. I can describe and analyze the origin, causes, and effects of the Reformation.

• 5. I can compare and analyze the beliefs and ideas of the leading Protestant reformers.

• 6.  I can summarize and analyze the reforms and the intent of the Roman Catholic Church’s Counter-Reformation.

• 7. I can describe key features and personalities of the Renaissance and Reformation and analyze their contributions to the period.

• 8. I can determine when primary and secondary sources would be most useful in analyzing historical events and use information form theses sources to support written work.

Secularism

Renaissance

Humanism

skepticism

Reformation

Indulgence

Protestant

Predestination

sect

excommunication

Huguenots

Theocracy

Great Schism

Justification by faith

Counter Reformation

Activity One

• In your learning log write five “aha” statements, questions, and/or analyses for the two work of art on the following slide (2minutes)

• Discuss with two other students in your area (2 minutes)

Duccio, Rucellai Madonna, 13th century

Sofonisba Anguissola The Chess Game 1555

Characteristics Middle Ages Renaissance

Religion   

Art   

Economics   

Social Classes   

Government   

the Roman Catholic Church dominated both spiritual and political areas of life

art was dominated by religious icons

feudalism was the main economic system

society consisted of three major social classes (nobles, serfs, and clergy)

empires were ruled by emperors or kings who ruled according to the “divine right of kings.” 

The individual becomes a subject

Many patrons of the arts

Growing middle class

Humanism and the individual become important

Merchants and banking

Wealth not birthrightIdeas of democracy

The Middle Ages (Dark Ages or Medieval Times)

• 500 AD- 1500 AD

• Famine

• War – 100 years war

– Crusades

• Black Death (the plague) 1348-1350 (peak)

• The Gutenberg Printing Press 1450

• The Roman Catholic Church – The great Schism

• What impact would these events have on the individuals view of the Church and their government?

• http://www.history.com/topics/crusades/videos#the-crusades

Renaissance

“rebirth” – an age of intellectual and artistic revival centered in the classical antiquity of Greek and Roman literature that began about 1350 A.D. and lasted until 1650 A.D

Why do you think that Italy was the birth place of the Renaissance?

http://www.history.com/topics/italian-renaissance/videos#the-renaissance

Italy the Birth Place of the Renaissance

• City-states • Trade • Merchant and banking

class– The Medici Family and

Florence

• Center of Greek and Roman heritage Lorenzo the Magnificent

http://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=map+of+renaissance+europe&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=mTO6o-YDlK9QPM&tbnid=xfzSS1dBT10OqM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftfssocial.weebly.com%2Fsocial-8.html&ei=zBzwUbfNA4jQ9ASNi4GoDA&bvm=bv.49641647,d.eWU&psig=AFQjCNFoWB7PbRHLoFsO6tAT1mjyJIN9nQ&ust=1374776890730984

Causes and Effects

Where it began and why 

 

Why it was successful 

 

What it accomplished  

 

How was it diffused throughout Europe  

 

Major differences between the Italian Renaissance and the Northern Europe Renaissance 

 

Impact on religion, economics, social classes, and government

 

Northern Italy: trade, merchant and banking families, city-states, Rome and Greece

C: Banking and trade, crusades, city-states, wealth, printing press E: advances in science and technology, humanism, secularism, art

The Renaissance Man and Women

Renaissance Art

• Perspective • Study of the human

form • Religion still a part of

art but the individual becomes a subject

• Patrons of the arts

The Last Supper (1495-1498) da Vinci

Italy

Realistic style copied from Rome and Greece

Donatello

• 1386-1466• Florence• Sculpture • David- bronze, 1440

made for the Medici family

Leonardo da Vinci• 1452-1519• Mona Lisa • The Last Supper • Renaissance Man

http://www.biography.com/people/leonardo-da-vinci-40396

Michelangelo

• 1475-1564• Rome • Medici Family • David • Sistine Chapel ceiling

– Fresco

Raphael

• 1483-1520• Florence/Rome• Painter and architect • Worked for the

Church

Northern Europe

Realism

Social reform based on Christian values

Germany Albrecht Durer Hans Holbein

Flanders

Van Eyck Bruegel

Filippo Brunelleschi

(1337–1446) is widely

considered the first

Renaissance architect.

Filippo Brunelleschi

(1337–1446) is widely

considered the first

Renaissance architect.

• What innovation or invention do you think has had the largest impact on the world? Why do you think this? (answer in your learning log) (3 minutes)

• Discuss with two other people in your area (2 minutes)

The Printing Press

• What role did the printing press play on the spread of Renaissance ideas?

Renaissance Writers

Francesco Petrarch

• 1304-1374• Italian • Father of Humanism• Other Italian writers

– Machiavelli

William Shakespeare

• 1564-1616• English • Playwright and poet • The Globe Theater • Queen Elizabeth I• Other English Writers

– Sir Thomas More

Shakespeare in the movies!Shakespeare in the movies!• Lion King = Hamlet• West Side Story=

Romeo and Juliet• 10 Things I hate

about you= Taming of the Shrew

• Lion King = Hamlet• West Side Story=

Romeo and Juliet• 10 Things I hate

about you= Taming of the Shrew

• O= Othello• She’s the man=

12th Night

• O= Othello• She’s the man=

12th Night