1. Recovery and Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance
Chapter 12
Recovery and Rebirth:
The Age of the Renaissance

2. Meaning and Characteristics of the Italian Renaissance
Renaissance = Rebirth
Jacob Burkhardt
Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)
Urban Society
Age of Recovery
Rebirth of Greco-Roman culture
Emphasis on individual ability

3. The Making of Renaissance Society
Economic Recovery
Italian cities lose economic supremacy
Hanseatic League
Manufacturing
Textiles, Printing, Mining and Metallurgy
Banking
Florence and the Medici

4. The Polish City of Gdansk An Important Member of the Hanseatic League

5. Social Changes in the Renaissance
The Nobility
Reconstruction of the Aristocracy
Aristocracy: 2 – 3 percent of the population
Baldassare Castiglione (1478 – 1529(
The Book of the Courtier (1528)
Service to the prince

6. French Renaissance Castle of Chenonceaux

7. Peasants and Townspeople
Peasants: 85 – 90 percent of population
Decline of manorial system and serfdom
Urban Society
Patricians
Petty burghers, shopkeepers, artisans, guildmasters, and guildsmen
The Poor and Unemployed
Slaves

8. Family and Marriage in Renaissance Italy
Arranged Marriages
Father-husband head of family
Wife managed household
Childbirth
Sexual Norms

9. Italian States in the Renaissance
Five Major Powers
Milan
Venice
Florence
The Medici
The Papal States
Kingdom of Naples
The Role of Women
France and Spain fight over the peninsula
Modern diplomatic system

10. Florence, Italy

11. Renaissance Italy
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12. Machiavelli and the New Statecraft
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 – 1527)
The Prince
Acquisition, maintenance and expansion of political power

13. The Intellectual Renaissance in Italy
Italian Renaissance Humanism
Humanism based on Greco-Roman literature
Petrarch (1304 – 1374)
Civic Humanism – Florence
Leonardo Bruni (1370 – 1444)
New Cicero
Humanism and Philosophy
Marsilio Ficino (1433 – 1499)
Translates Plato’s dialogues
Synthesis of Christianity and Platonism
Renaissance Hermeticism
Corpus Hermeticum
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463 – 1494)
Oration on the Dignity of Man

14. Education & The Impact of Printing
Education in the Renaissance
Liberal Studies: history, moral philosophy, eloquence (rhetoric), letters (grammar and logic), poetry, mathematics, astronomy and music
Education of Women
Aim of Education was to create a complete citizen
Francesco Guicciardini
The Impact of Printing
Johannes Gutenberg
Movable type (1445 – 1450)
Gutenberg’s Bible (1455 or 1456)
The Spread of Printing

15. The Artistic Renaissance
Early Renaissance
Masaccio (1401 – 1428)
Perspective and Organization
Movement and Anatomical Structure
Donato di Donatello (1386 – 1466)
David
Filippo Brunelleschi (1377 – 1446)
Church of San Lorenzo
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519)
Last Supper
Raphael (1483 – 1520)
School of Athens
Michelangelo (1475 – 1564)
The Sistine Chapel

16. The Northern Artistic Renaissance
Jan van Eyck (c – 1441)
Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride
Albrecht Dürer (1471 – 1528)
Adoration of the Magi
Music in the Renaissance
Guillaume Dufay

17. The European State in the Renaissance
The Renaissance State in Western Europe
France
Louis XI the Spider King (1461 – 1483)
England
War of the Roses
Henry VII Tudor (1485 – 1509)
Spain
Unification of Castile and Aragón
Establishment of professional royal army
Religious uniformity
The Inquisition
Conquest of Granada
Expulsion of the Jews

18. The Lion Court in the Alhambra Granada, Spain

19. Europe in the Renaissance
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20. Central, Eastern, and Ottoman Empires
Central Europe: The Holy Roman Empire
Habsburg Dynasty
Maximilian I (1493 – 1519)
The Struggle for Strong Monarchy in Eastern Europe
Poland
Hungary
Russia
The Ottoman Turks and the end of the Byzantine Empire
Seljuk Turks spread into Byzantine territory
Constantinople falls to the Turks (1453)

21. The Grand Bazaar in Contemporary Istanbul

22. The Church in the Renaissance
The Problem of Heresy and Reform
John Hus (1374 – 1415)
Urged the elimination of worldliness and corruption of the clergy
Burned at the stake (1415)
Church Councils
The Papacy
The Renaissance Papacy
Julius II (1503 – 1513)
“Warrior Pope”
Nepotism
Patrons of Culture
Leo X (1513 – 1521)

23. Discussion Questions
What social changes did the Renaissance bring about?
How did Machiavelli deal with the issue of political power?
How did the printing press change European society?
What technical achievements did Renaissance artists make? Why were they significant?
What was the relation between art and politics in Renaissance Italy?
How did the popes handle the growing problems that were emerging in the Church in the Fifteenth and early Sixteenth Century?

24. Web Links Renaissance Secrets Explore Leonardo’s Studio
Leonardo da Vinci on the BBC
Vatican Exhibit – Rome Reborn
Renaissance – Focus on Florence
The Uffizi Gallery – Florence
Vatican Museums – The Sistine Chapel
Gutenberg.de
The War of the Roses
The Ottoman Website