Cultural Change in Europe History 103/103 G Cultural Change in Europe
Cultural Change in Europe A new world in Europe? Italian Renaissance 1300-1520 Northern Renaissance 1500-1700 Reformation and Counter-reformation Orality and literacy (scribal and print) Conclusion: from Theology to Science?
A New World in Europe?: Some impacts of the discoveries An altered European self perception in space and time 1492: when discovery became invention (Latin: invenire) leading, via experience and experimentation, assisted by printing, to the scientific revolution. The impact of American silver : military revolution and Europe’s religious wars. The `public sphere’: news, public opinion, and religious and political debate. Commodities and addictions: pepper, tobacco, sugar, coffee and tea.
Italy in 1500
Religious Divisions in Europe, c. 1560.
Canaletto’s London (1749)
Conclusion: from Theology to Science? 1. Medieval Theology: a priestly elite seeking knowledge of God 2. Moral philosophy: Italian and Northern humanists seeking knowledge of man 3. Natural philosophy: a scientific community seeking knowledge – and mastery – of the world 4. Each informs without replacing the others. God and the ancients remain central. Competing discourses and argument