History 1123
European
Society and Community, c. 1300-1600 C.E.
I. Changes in
Society, 1000-1500
A. Cities
and Towns: the Cradle of the Renaissance.
1.
Key Developments in the South
a. Urban Institutions and Their Development
b. The Renaisance
1.
social background
2.
humanists
3.
educational developments
4.
history and philosophy
5.
humanists and the university
6.
the popular Renaissance
2.
Key Developments in the North and Elsewhere
a.
How did the Renaissance become part of the north?
b.
Differences w/the South
c.
Key Figures
1.
England:
Sir Thomas More (1478-1535, Utopia);
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
2.
France:
François Rabelais (1490-1553, Gargantua
and Pantagruel); Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
B.
Women and the Renaissance
1.
Exceptional Women vs. the Rest
II. Consolidation of State Power and Knowledge in Europe, c. 1100-1500
A. Sources of Knowledge of the World Beyond Europe: Traders,
Travelers, Pilgrims
1. traders
2. travelers
3. Missionaries
B. Consolidation of State Power: England, France, Spain, and
Portugal, 1400-1500
1. Portugal
2. Spain
3. England
4. France
C. Religious Reformation
1. Church Hierarchy, 1300-1500
2. Laity, 1300-1500
3. Martin Luther's Protest
4. Subsequent Contributors to the
Debate
5. The Secular Arm
Key Terms:
corporate bodies/assocations
merchant
guilds crafts guilds
universities
confraternities
parishes/neighborhoods
patricians
city-states
Venice
Florence
Genoa
Milan
popolo
humanists
history
philology
textual criticism
paleography
Francesco Petrarch,
1304-1374
Latin
Greek
liberal arts
music
mathematics
literature
history
science
sport
Coluccio Salutati (1331-1406)
Marsilio
Ficino (1433-1499)
Christine de Pisan (1365-1430)
Marguerite de
Navarre (1492-1549)
Polo Family, c. 1271-1295
Crusades
Reconquest
John of Montecorvino (-1328)
John I of the Aviz dynasty (1385-1433)
Prince Henry the Navigator (c. 1394-1460)
Ceuta
Madeira Islands
Azores
Cape Bojador
Senegal, a.k.a. Cape Verde peninsula
Cape
Verde Islands
Gulf of Guinea
Islands
Alfonso V (1438-1481)
John II (1481-1495)
Treaty of Alcaçovas, 1479
Bartholomeu Dias
Cape of Good Hope
Treaty of Tordesillas, 1494
Vasco da Gama
Ferdinand (1479-1516)
Isabella (1474-1504)
Spanish Inquisition
Emirate of Granada
Canary Islands
Columbus
Treaty of Tordesillas
Henry Tudor (r. 1485-1509)
War of the Roses
Charles VII (1422-1461)
Companies of Ordinance
100 Years' War (1337-1453)
Louis XI (r. 1461-1483)
Babylonian Captivity (1309-1378)
Great Schism (1378-1417)
Consiliar Movement
Brotherhood of the
Common Life
Beguines and Beghards
Lollards
Bohemia
Hussites
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Martin Luther (1483-1546)
University of Wittenberg
Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531)
John (Jean) Calvin (1509-1564)
Anabaptists (1520s)
Ignatius Loyola (1491-1556)
Council of Trent (1545-1563)
Francis I of France (1515-1547)
French Wars of Religion 1562-1598
Henry VIII (1509-1547), Edward VI (1547-1553)
Elizabeth I
(1558-1603)
Charles V (r. 1519-1555/1516-1556)
Ferdinand I of Austria
(1558-1564)
Philip II (1556-1598)
cuius regio eius religio
30 Years' War 1618-1648
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