1. Sample Reading Quiz An educational program that championed the study of Latin and Greek classics and Christian Church fathers as an end in itself and as a guide to reforming society is known as _____________. Women did or did not benefit from Renaissance educational reform? Renaissance scholars particularly loved the work of Aristotle or Plato? Political power in Italy was held by the Emperor or the City States?

2. The Renaissance Re Naiss/nascent Ance

3. When? 1370s-1500s Quattrocento

4. What? Medieval fragmented feudal society marginal agrarian (farming) economy intellectually dominated by the Church Renaissance Political centralization Awareness of national identities Capitalistic urban economies Increasingly secular culture

5. Where?

6. Why? Increasingly urban society More money in society More education More trade/contact with Arabs and the Byzantine empire who have preserved Greek texts REACTION to 4 Horsemen of the 1300s

7. Essential Elements Ad fontes Humanism: “Man is the measure of all things” Individualism New Spirit of Inquiry: “Question Authority” Secularism