1. Humanist Philosophers
CHY
Lesson 12

2. Humanist Philosophers
Learning Goal: Be able to clearly explain the ideas and theories of at least one humanist philosopher
Discuss the philosophers as a class
Partner activity: textbook question page 27 #2
Note (The Renaissance Society and Modernity)
Review questions

3. Bruni

4. Christine de Pisan

5. Giovanni Pico della Mirandolo

6. Thomas More

7. Textbook page 27, question 2
Work with a partner, chart paper, and markers to answer this question. Feel free to substitute the other philosophers we have looked for some of the ones listed in the question.
Grab magnets from me and post your finished work on the board.

8. Renaissance Art
This time period changed the way artists are perceived in society
A shift from art and architecture simply being to glorify God
Medieval art is often seen as a decline from the time of Rome
Renaissance artists focused on proportion, order, harmony, symmetry, etc.
Reflected the world around them
Church continued to sponsor art and architecture but so did the middle classes

9. Wealthy people commissioned art to celebrate their own achievements
Portraits, family homes, civic buildings, etc., all required skilled artists
The artist achieved great recognition and fame, as well
Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci were hired by popes and princes
Considered geniuses and masters of their craft

10. Renaissance art embraced classical myths as inspiration
Art was made to represent the human condition
Seeing the divine in the ordinary and every day

11. Renaissance Society
Moved from communal family to nuclear family with the growth of new wealth
Property could be divided among individual family members
Each man could have his own property
Marriage became more personal (less of an alliance between 2 families)
Encouraged a broad education in classics and religion
Young men also needed history, literature, ethics, and rhetoric

12. The idea of the knight was transformed to the idea of the gentlemen
Refined manners and knowledge of the arts
Castiglione’s work The Courtier (1528) influenced courtly life
Virtues of moderation, liberality, wisdom, justice were encouraged
Women were to please the men, treated fairly by them, but always inferior
Women were more educated but not ever equal
Women managed households, household finances, and had authority over children

13. Men managed the public sphere, women ran the home
Double standard when it came to sex; men could have lots of sex, women could not!

14. Society and Class
80% of the population was made up of peasants (free and serfs)
After the Black Death (mid-14th C), serfdom declined
Simpler to grant freedom to serfs and then rent land to them (tenant farmers)
30% of this peasant population became urban poor, working for professionals (lawyers, bankers, skilled workers, etc.)
Upsurge in slavery (mainly from black cultures)
Most in domestic service but some as skilled labourers
Didn’t last long as it started to decline by 1500

15. Homework:
Read page 26 (from The Development of the State…). Make notes to add to this powerpoint.
C  Answer questions 1, 3, 4, and 5 or 9 on page 27
U  Answer questions 1, 3, 4, 5, 9 on page 27