1. Renaissance and Reformation
World History Unit 1
Renaissance and Reformation

2. 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.

3. Secularism
Justification by faith
Theocracy
Reformation
excommunication
Renaissance
skepticism
Predestination
Humanism
Great Schism
Indulgence
sect
Counter Reformation
Protestant
Huguenots

4. 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)

5. Duccio, Rucellai Madonna, 13th century
Sofonisba Anguissola The Chess Game 1555

6. Characteristics Middle Ages Renaissance Religion Art Economics
Art
Economics
Social Classes
Government
the Roman Catholic Church dominated both spiritual and political areas of life
Humanism and the individual become important
The individual becomes a subject
Many patrons of the arts
art was dominated by religious icons
Merchants and banking
feudalism was the main economic system
Growing middle class
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.” 
Wealth not birthright
Ideas of democracy

7. The Middle Ages (Dark Ages or Medieval Times)
500 AD AD
Famine
War
100 years war
Crusades
Black Death (the plague) (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?

8. 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?

9. 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

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

12. The Renaissance Man and Women

13. 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 ( ) da Vinci

14. Realistic style copied from Rome and Greece
Italy
Realistic style copied from Rome and Greece

15. Donatello 1386-1466 Florence Sculpture
David- bronze, 1440 made for the Medici family

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

17. Michelangelo 1475-1564 Rome Medici Family David Sistine Chapel ceiling
Fresco
Michelangelo

19. Raphael 1483-1520 Florence/Rome Painter and architect
Worked for the Church

20. Realism Social reform based on Christian values
Northern Europe
Realism
Social reform based on Christian values

21. Germany
Hans Holbein
Albrecht Durer

22. Flanders
Van Eyck
Bruegel

23. Filippo Brunelleschi (1337–1446) is widely considered the first Renaissance architect.

24. 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)

25. The Printing Press
What role did the printing press play on the spread of Renaissance ideas?

26. Renaissance Writers

27. Francesco Petrarch 1304-1374 Italian Father of Humanism
Other Italian writers
Machiavelli

28. William Shakespeare 1564-1616 English Playwright and poet
The Globe Theater
Queen Elizabeth I
Other English Writers
Sir Thomas More

29. Shakespeare in the movies!
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