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Chapter 14: European Cultural and Religious Transformations: 1300–1600
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I. Late Medieval BackgroundII. Italian Renaissance ArtIII. The Northern RenaissanceIV. Crises of the Catholic Church: 1300–1517V. Luther and the ReformationVI. Impact of the Reformation
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I. Late Medieval Background
A. Economic Depression and the
Bubonic PlagueDrought > famine > weakness1347–50 — Plague“Black Death”B. ImpactEnd of medieval economic
systemserfdom > wage labor
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II. Italian Renaissance Art
A. The SettingItalian City-States — 5 major:MilanNaplesPapal StatesVeniceFlorenceBankersMedicirule Florence (1434–94)
B. Literary PrecedentsvernacularsDante Alighieri (1265–1321)Divine ComedyGeoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–
1400)Canterbury TalesChristine de Pizan (1365–
c.1430)The Book of the City of
Ladies
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II. Italian Renaissance Art
A. The SettingItalian City-States — 5 major:MilanNaplesPapal StatesVeniceFlorenceBankersMedicirule Florence (1434–94)
B. Literary PrecedentsvernacularsDante Alighieri (1265–1321)Divine ComedyGeoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340–
1400)Canterbury TalesChristine de Pizan (1365–
c.1430)The Book of the City of Ladies
Ignazio Danti, The Lagoon of Venice
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II. Italian Renaissance Art
C. HumanismDefinitionFrancesco Petrarca (1304–74)“Father of Humanism”Latin poetryGiovanni Boccaccio (1313–75)DecameronClassical Revival“The Academy”Marsilio Ficino (1433–99)Pico della Mirandola (1463–94)D. Art
EarlyGiotto (c.1266–1337)Masaccio (1401–28)Sandro Botticelli (1447–1510)Donatello (1386–1466)
High (1500–1530)Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)
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III. The Northern Renaissance
A. The Influence of PrintingJohann Gutenberg, 1440smovable type
B. Northern Europe
François Rabelais (c.1483–1553)Gargantua and Pantagruel
Michel de Montaigne (1533–92)essaysUlrich von Hutten (1488–1523)National LiteraturesMiguel de Cervantes (1547–
1616)Don Quixote de la ManchaWilliam Shakespeare (1564–
1616)
EnglandElizabeth I (1588–1603)
C. Northern PaintingJan van Eyck (c.1395–1441)e.g. The Arnolfini Wedding
Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528)
Hans Holbein the Younger (1497–1543)
Hieronymus Bosch (1480–1516)The Garden of Delights
Pieter Brueghel the Elder (c. 1525–69)
D. Northern Humanism
Desiderius Erasmus (c.1466–1536)The Praise of Folly, 1511
Sir Thomas More (1478–1535)Utopia
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IV. Crises of the Catholic Church: 1300–1517
A. PapacyBoniface VIII (1294–1303)
Unam Sanctam (1302)
Avignon Papacy (1302–1377)
The Great Schism (1378–1417)Rome v. Avignon
B. Wycliffe and HusJohn Wycliffe (c.1320–84)
John Hus (c.1369–1415)Bohemiaexcommunicated> Council of Constance, 1415> Hussite wars (1419–37)
C. The Conciliar Movement1395, University of Paris
1417—Schism ended
D. Political ChallengesItalian City-States
e.g., Milan
Gallican Church
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V. Luther and the Reformation
A. The Search for SalvationAugustiniansTreasury of Merit> IndulgencesFirst Crusade, etc.> Sales of Indulgences1517 — Mainz IndulgenceArchbishop Albert of Mainz—50%Pope Leo X — 50% for St. PetersJohan Tetzel, Dominican monk
> Ninety-Five Theses, 1517
B. Luther’s ChallengeInfallibility of the PopeAuthority of church fathersRole of the clergy“priesthood of all believers”1521 — Imperial Diet, at WormsPeasant revolts
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VI. Impact of the ReformationA. The Anglican Church
Henry VIII (1509–47)Catherine of Aragon (1485–1536)annulmentDissolution of the Monasteries
Edward VI (154753)Somerset v. Northumberland
Mary Tudor
B. Protestantism on the Continent
Anabaptism
1499 — Swiss Independence
Ulrich Zwingli (1484–1531)John Calvin (1509–64)
Geneva — ConsistoryInstitutes of the Christian
Religion (1536)
C. Catholic ReformationSavonarola (1452–98)Cardinal Ximenes (1437–1517)St. Teresa of Avila (1515–82)
Interior Castle, The Ladder of PerfectionSociety of Jesus (Jesuits)
Ignatius Loyola (1491–1556)
Pope Paul III (1534–49)Council of Trent (1545–63)
Catholic Church LutherSacraments 7 2Authority Bible, traditionsBible onlyIndulgences upheld deniedWorks upheld faith alone
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Fifteenth-century map of Canterbury