1. Humanism & Education 1300-1600 Portrait of a Humanist by Giovanni Bellini c. 1490

2. Italy: The Seedbed of Literary Humanism

4. Often referred to as the first humanist
Francesco Petrarch
Often referred to as the first humanist

5. Giovanni Boccaccio
Florentine poet and scholar who became close friends with Petrarch
The son of a merchant, he spent much of his youth at the court of Naples, where he developed an interest in chivalric literature and love poetry

6. Machiavelli
Self taught for the most part, this Florentine thinker was highly original in his political ideas
Later in life he fell afoul of the Florentine oligarchy and was tortured
His views on politics are still widely controversial today

7. Pico Della Mirandola,

8. Erasmus

9. Thomas More English Humanist c. 1530

10. Shakespeare’s works reflect influences from Christian Humanism

11. Chaucer & English Vernacular Literature

12. Discuss Chaucer
How does the Nun’s Priest’s Tale indicate the influence of humanism?
What is the moral of the story?
Why did Chaucer place a Latin phrase in his story?
Mulier est hominis confusio
How did he translate that phrase?

13. What is Pertelote’s response when Chanticleer tells her of his scary dream?
She tells him to stay at home
She ignores him and starts whistling
She advises him to take a laxative
She advises him to visit a fortune teller
She encourages him to seek therapy

14. What is Chanticleer’s near fatal weakness in the Nun’s Priest’s Tale?
He enjoys eating
He is prone to flattery
He is unwilling to talk
He has unsettling dreams
He fails to listen to his wife

15. Discuss Chaucer How might a medieval preacher use such a story?
Which Christian values did the story convey?

16. Medieval English Piety 1300-1550

17. St. Thomas Becket Canterbury

18. St. George Patron Saint of England

19. St. Erkenwald Bishop of London 7th century

20. St. Fritha, aka. Fritheswith Abbess and protector of Oxford 7th and 8th century

21. St. Swithun Bishop of Winchester 9th century

22. A Book of Hours

23. Feasting & Processions

24. Late
Medieval
Mardis Gras

25. Transi Tomb

26. Rood Screen

28. Development of Literacy

29. English Mystics Langland Julian

30. John Wyclif, 1320-84 “Morning Star of the Reformation”
Emphasized the authority of the Bible and began unauthorized translation
Questioned transubstantiation
Advocated for the confiscation of Church property
Encouraged the elimination of ritual and ornamentation in churches

33. Sir John Oldcastle
Lollard knight burnt for heresy 1418

35. The Gutenberg Bible c. 1450

36. Inside a Printing Works, Bibliotheque des Arts Decoratifs, Paris
Papermaking, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris

37. William Caxton’s Printing Device

38. Fleet Street – London’s Publishing District

39. William Tyndale’s English Bible 1525

41. England & the Reformation

42. How does Chaucer characterize the monk in the Shipman’s Tale?
As a devout Benedictine with no charm
As an advocate of monastic reform and Church independence
As drunken fool who does not know his pater noster
As a leacherous and untrustworthy cousin of the merchant

43. What do Chanticleer and his wife argue over?
Whether dreams have meaning
Whether hens are wiser than roosters
Whether foxes can sing
Whether the Romans used chickens to tell the future
All of the above

44. What is the moral to the story?
Mulier est hominus confusio
Do not be misled in by flattery
Knowledge is not confined to priests
Even the animals of poor people have wisdom