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UNIT 1 1450- 1648
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15 16 , 17 centuries
Renaissance
Reformation & Religious Wars
Exploration & Conquest
Absolutism & New Thinking
The Crises of the Late Middle
Ages
The Great Loss in Population
Monarchs & Rulers imposing new
political Order
Religious crisis
Europe in 1300
Geography of Europe in 1300
Europe = many small states!!
Major states at this time:
England
Scotland
Norway
Sweden
Portugal
Denmark
France
Bohemia (= Czech Republic today)
Austria
Teutonic Order (= Baltic states today)
Do not yet exist as we know them today:
Spain = Castile, Aragon, Granada, Navarre; not united
Italy = Sicily, Papal States, + others; not united
Germany = not united; part of Holy Roman Empire
Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg = the Low Countries
Russia = group of principalities; Mongol Yoke (1237-1480)
Nations of SE Europe = part of Byzantine Empire
(1) Great Famine (1315-1322)
From the Apocalypse in a
Biblia Pauperum illuminated
at Erfurt around the time
of the Great Famine.
Death sits astride a lion
whose long tail ends in a
ball of flame (Hell).
Famine points to her
hungry mouth.
Causes
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price inflation
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terrible weather (mini
ice age)
In 1315 the price of wheat rose 800%
3 SFHS cookies cost $1.25.
With 800% inflation  $10!
In 1303 and 1306-1307, the Baltic Sea froze!
Dürer’s Four Horsemen of the
Apocalypse (1497-98)
Consequences
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 susceptibility to disease
later marriage
 population
 homeless
rich farmers buy out poor
farmers
volatile land market
unemployment
migration of young males to
towns
 crime
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War Pestilence
Famine
Death
Int’l trade = consequences spread far
Gov’t. responses ineffective
Geography of Europe in 1400
From 1300-1400 states consolidated their holdings = fewer small states
Major states at this time:
England
Union of Kalmar = Norway, Sweden, Denmark
Scotland
Poland-Lithuania
Portugal
Bohemia
France
Hungary
Austria
Wallachia (= Romania today)
Ottoman Empire
Do not yet exist as we know them today:
Spain, Italy, Germay = still not united
Russia = still under Mongol Yoke (1237-1480)
The Renaissance Period
Black Death
100 Years War
Changes in the Church
Social Unrest
Origins of the Renaissance
Changing Society
Changing Political Structure
Intellectual and Culture Changes
Italian v. Northern Renaissance
Journal #1
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What would you do if
you know you were
going to die in less
than a week?
Things to think about
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Possessions
Food
School
Friends
(1)Black Death (1348)
Boccaccio in The Decameron:
The victims ate lunch with their friends and
dinner with their ancestors.
Causes
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famine 
susceptibility to
disease
advances in
shipbuilding
Rats (fleas from
rats) on ships
from Black Sea
urban
overcrowding &
poor sanitation &
hygiene
The Culprits
The Disease Cycle
Flea drinks rat blood
that carries the
bacteria.
Bacteria
multiply in
flea’s gut.
bubonic = spread by flea
Human is infected!
Flea bites human and
regurgitates blood
into human wound.
pneumonic = spread
human-human
Flea’s gut clogged
with bacteria.
The Symptoms
Buba
Septicemic Form:
almost 100%
mortality rate.
The Mortality Rate
35-50% (could
be up to 70%)
25,000,000 dead!!!
Essential Question
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What were the most significant effects of
the Black Death on Medieval Europe????
Giovanni Boccacio- The Decameron
-Read the Introduction of The Decameron
- Complete Graphic organizer after using
introduction and slides
Consequences – Social
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pogroms against Jews
Migration (move to
city)
clergy care for sick
(demand for religious
services for dead, and
dying)
Social conflicts of
classes (Peasant
Revolts)
The burning of Jews in 1349
Consequences – Economic
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 unemployment (Farms
decline)
 productivity, wages, &
standard of living (limited
laborers)
Nobles decline in power (pay
more for products & labor)
Agricultural prices 
craft guilds take new
members (laborers migrate to
city to learn skills)
inflation
PLabor
S1
S
P2
P1
D
Q2
Q1
Wage Increase
QLabor
Consequences – Psychological/Cultural
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Pessimism
art & lit – theme of death
Flagellants (beat themselves
in ritual penance)
new colleges & universities –
more localized
culturally Europe becomes
more divided
Dance Macabre (Hans Holbein)
"And no bells tolled and nobody wept
no matter what his loss because
almost everyone expected death ...
and people said and believed, 'This is
the end of the world.'"
 - Agnolo di Tura, chronicler of Siena in
central Italy, on the Black Death, 1348
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Essential Question: Assessment
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What were the most significant effects of
the Black Death on Medieval Europe????
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3 to 5 sentences
Essential Questions
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What were the causes of the Hundred
years war?
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What were the outcome of the Hundred
years war?
Get into Groups of 3
One Person Find Causes of 100 years war
 One person Find Progress/Development of
War
 One Person Find Outcomes of 100 years
war
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Pg. 298-302
(2) Hundred Years’ War (ca 1337-1453)
ENGLAND VS. FRANCE
Battle of Sluys (1340). Illustration from a manuscript of Froissart’s Chronicles.
Causes 1: Controversy over succession
to French throne
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Charles IV of France dies heirless
French nobility selects Philip VI of Valois
Chosen over Edward III of England
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Long history of prejudice & animosity between French and
English people
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“no woman or her son could succeed to the [French]
monarchy”
1340 – proclaims himself King of France
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Causes 2: French land belonging to
British monarchy
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English claim Aquitaine as
ancient inheritance & occupy
it as vassal to French crown
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Philip VI confiscates
Aquitaine in 1337
Aquitaine
Pointhieu
Causes 3: Wool trade & control of
Flanders
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Wool trade b/t England &
Flanders
Flanders = French fief
Flanders wants independence
from French rule & asks
English for help
Flanders
Causes 4: Struggle for French national
identity
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France 3x population and far
wealthier then England
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France disunited caused by
social conflicts
Estates general (too divided to
be effective)
Peasants had to pay increasing
taxes
French vassals (land holders)
of Philip VI side with
Edward III to assert
independence from French
crown
Course 1: English Winning at 1st
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Crécy, Calais, Poitiers, Agincourt victories
English longbow vs. French crossbow
Cannon
England Embargo to Flanders=
rebellions by merchants & signed alliance
with England
Capture King John II the Good
Course 2: French Victory
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Joan of Arc to the rescue!
Orléans = turning point
King Charles VII receives
crown back
Height of English Dominance, 1429
Consequences
England
France
-development of
• physical destruction
parliament (Commons)
• unified France
-Peace of Bretigny-Calais
•Centralized government
Both
Sovereignty over English
Territories in France • economic problems •Burgundy became a
Major power
-Treaty of Troyes –disinherited •social discontent
•Pay 3 million gold crowns
• nationalism
The legitimate heir to
to get King John the Good
Frnech throne and proclaimed
Release
Henry V successor to King Charles
VI
France becomes unified!
France in 1453
France in 1337
Journal # 2
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What were the causes of the Hundred
years war?
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What were the outcome of the Hundred
years war?
(3) Church in Decline
Babylonian Captivity (1309-1376)
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Pope moves to Avignon
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Popes live extravagantly
Cut off from Rome needed to get
funds
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Annates (taxes for first year in office)
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Indulgences (sell pardons for
unrepeated sins)
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Shorter time in purgatory
Could buy them for those already dead
Rome left in poverty
Clement V
Avignon
Great Schism (1376-1417)
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2 popes!! (Rome & Avignon)
Gregory XI brings papacy back
to Rome
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Within sphere of influence of
France
King Charles V wanted papacy to
return to Avignon
Urban VI (Rome) – aggressive
reform causes anger & second
election
Clement VII (Avignon) –
“antipope”
Great Schism divides Europe politically
Conciliarism: Theory
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Reform movement
Pope derives power from entire Christian community
Constitutional structure: pope + general council
Marsiglio of Padua
John Wyclif & Lollards
Conciliarism: Practice
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Council of Pisa (1409)  3 popes!!
Council of Constance (1414-1418) – 3 goals:
1.
end Great Schism
2.
end heresy
3.
reform church
Results: Kings asserted their
Power over the church (France & England)
-others reformed&regulated Religious life
Jan Hus
(6) Peasant Revolts
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Jacquerie (1358)
Causes:
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Long-term socioeconomic
grievances
100 Years War – taxation
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English Peasants’ Revolt
(1381)
Causes:
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Result: Crushed by nobility
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Long-term socioeconomic
grievances (Statute of Laborers
freezes wages)
Urging by preachers
100 Years War – French raids
Head tax on adult males
Result: Crushed by Richard
II but serfdom disappeared
by 1550
Society
Life went on even in the face of calamity.
What did 14th c. society look like?
Marriage & Family
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Arranged
Based on economics (vs. ♥)
Age: men in mid-late 20s, women <20
Children = objects of affection
No divorce (annulments in rare cases)
Prostitution
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Legal & regulated
Not respected
Urban
Life in the Parish
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Work
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Rural: farming
Urban: craft guilds – hard to
enter (more open post-plague)
Women “inferior”  limited
opportunities
Religion
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Central to life
 lay control over parish
affairs
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Recreation
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Aristocracy: tournaments
Commoners: archery,
wrestling, alcohol
Both: “blood sports,”
executions
Race & Ethnicity on the Frontiers
Migration of peoples to frontier regions
 “race”/“ethnicity” = used to mean language, customs,
laws (vs. blood)
 Legal dualism: natives subject to local laws &
newcomers subject to laws of former homeland
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Ireland as exception – Statute of Kilkenny (1366)
As time passed, moved away from legal dualism toward
homogeneity & emphasis on blood descent
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Dalimil Chronicle
Vernacular Literature
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Dante, Divine Commedy (Italy)
Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
(England)
Villon, Lais & Grand
Testament (France)
Christine de Pisan, The City of
Ladies, etc. (France)
 lay literacy – due to needs
of commerce & gov’t.
Dante
Christine de Pisan presenting her
book to the Queen of France
Europe in 1400
The Renaissance
Journal #3
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“O highest and most
marvelous felicity of
man! To him it is
granted to have
whatever he chooses,
to be whatever he
wills.”
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Write the quote down
Do you agree or
disagree? Why or why
not?
Italian City-States
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Florence
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Economic prosperity
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Mediterranean trade routes
Development of banking & credit
Social dynamism
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Popolo grasso “Fat people
 Nobles, wealthy merchants,
manufactures
Mediocri
 Smaller merchants &
market artisans
Popolo Minuito “little people
 Laborers, artisans
Italian City-State Government
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Constitutional oligarchies dominated by
powerful wealthy families
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Manipulated electoral process
Played off rivalries and implemented rule
(sometimes by Force)
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Medici (Venice, Siena, Florence & Lucca
Francesco Sforza (Milan)
THE “ISMS” of the Renaissance
Humanism
Individualism
Secularism
Scientific Naturalism
Humanism
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intellectual movement based on study of the Latin & Greek classics
(classicism)
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humanities (liberal arts): grammar, rhetoric, poetry, ethics, history &
Philosophy
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renewed interest in man and new view of humankind
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Instead of law, medicine & theory
believed in human potential and glorified man’s dignity
man depicted in art as the center of the world
civic humanism: application of humanist education to civil service
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First half of renaissance
How humanism affected the city-states themselves
vs. Middle Ages – learning confined largely to Christian monasteries; subordination of humans
to God; human body should be covered up, not glorified (Christian worldview)
Individualism
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new emphasis on individual achievement
belief that the individual ought to be free to think,
speak, and act for himself
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Able to discover truth & wisdom
Could interpret text w/o assistance of Clergy
vs. Middle Ages – cooperation within small communities; individual achievement
subordinate to religious faith/piety (Christian worldview)
“O highest and most marvelous felicity of man! To him it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to
be whatever he wills.” . . . .we are “ the molder and sculptor of himself.”
- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494)
Individualism: Self portrait emerged
Titian,
Portrait of Empress Isabel of
Portugal, 1548
(oil on canvas)
Titian,
Portrait of Emperor Charles V at
Muhlberg, 1548
(oil on canvas)
Secularism
increasing concern with the material rather than spiritual
world
 material values: money/wealth, material goods, leisure
time/activities
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vs. Middle Ages – focus on the spiritual world/Kingdom of Heaven (Christian worldview)
Pieter Bruegel, Peasant
Dance, 1568 (oak on panel)
Secularism
Boccaccio (1313-1375), The Decameron:
“Niccolò’s son, Filippo, being a young
man and a bachelor, was wont
sometimes to bring thither a woman
for his pleasure, and after keeping her
there for a few days to escort her
thence again. Now on one of these
occasions it befell that he brought
thither one Niccolosa, whom a vile
fellow, named Mangione, kept in a
house at Camaldoli as a common
prostitute. And a fine piece of flesh
she was, and wore fine clothes, and,
for one of her sort, knew how to
comport herself becomingly and talk
agreeably.”
Hans Holbein,
The Ambassadors, 1533
(oil on wood)
Scientific Naturalism
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close observation and study of the
natural world
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geometry / proportions / space /
laws of perspective
anatomy
realistic portrayal of natural world
vs. Middle Ages – less realistic and more
stylized; focus is on representation of God
rather than representation of God (Christian
worldview)
Leonardo da Vinci,
Vitruvian Man, 1492
(pen and ink)
study of ideal proportions
Scientific Naturalism
Leonardo da Vinci,
Study of a woman’s hands,
date unknown (drawing)
Leonardo da Vinci,
Larynx and legs, 1510
(drawing)
You are Michelangelo
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You are assigned to design a mural for the
ceiling
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Can be words, pictures (drawn), or a collage
(of pictures from the computer)
Has to fill up the whole 8x11 piece of white
paper
1 paragraph typed on the back or on a
separate piece of paper describing your work
DUE Tuesday
Get on the floor and stare at the ceiling
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3 minutes for inspiration
The Renaissance
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Architecture (Renaissance vs. Medieval Gothic)
Paintings (Leonardo Da Vinci, Raphael,
Michelangelo)
Sculpting (Michelangelo, Donatello)
Writings (Petrarch,Pico Della Mirandola,
Machiavelli
Complete your graphic organizer
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You will go around the stations and write
down everything you notice about the
writings, paintings, sculptors or
architectures
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For each station you have 5 minutes
The Renaissance & Gender
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Considered sinful daughters of
eve (church view)
Subordinate to men
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Can own property & write wills
but cannot sell w/o permission
Boys valued more than girls
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Female babies were abandoned
or sent to convents
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Some educated girls
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Considered liability cause of
marriage
Became writers, publishers,
booksellers, printers
No prominent female painters
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Couldn’t go to university or be
an apprentice
Journal #4
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If you were a
leader and you
could not be both
would you rather
be loved or
feared?
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Explain your
answer
The End of the Renaissance
The French Invasions
Revival of Monarchy in Northern
Europe
Decline of the City States
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Political life deteriorated
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Medici despotism faced
opposition
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War between rival families
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Exiled Machiavelli
Tried to outdo each other in
violence, brutality, & prayer
Dis-unification led to Invasions
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King Charles VIII marches
through Italy (1st invasion)
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Pope Alexander VI allows France
back in (2nd invasion)
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Priest/Monk Savonarola of
Florence welcomed arrival was
because of sin (secularism)
Corrupt pope
Allows King Louis XII to invade
Milan
King Francis I invades (3rd time)
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Goes to war with SPAIN
Revival of Monarchy in Northern
Europe
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France
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Spain
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England
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Holy Roman Empire
Decline of Nobility (Black Death) & Decline of Cleary (Schism)= Increase growth of Monarchies
Revival of Monarchy in Northern
Europe
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France
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Professional army
Collapse of English Empire
in France (100 years war)
Death of Charles Bold of
Burgundy= King Louis XI
to secure monarchy
England
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War of Roses (York vs.
Lancaster)
Richard III kills Edward’s son
to secure throne
Henry VII (Henry Tudor)
marries Elizabeth of York &
unites royal families
Spain
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Union of Isabella of Castile and
Ferdinand of Aragon united kingdoms
Secured borders
Christianize Spain (state controlled
religion
Charles I- inheritance united Spain and
elected emperor
Sponsored Christopher Columbus
(expansion Mexico & Peru gold & silver)
Holy Roman Empire
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Golden Bull established 7 member
electoral college and elected
emperor
Rights of power balanced between
princes & emperor
Princes share executive power
because of Supreme Court of Justice
Decline of Nobility (Black Death) & Decline of Cleary (Schism)= Increase growth of Monarchies
End of Renaissance
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By 1530 Artistic styles
reflected loss of Selfconfidence due to
Invasions
Optimism declined
Renaissance (you can
do it attitude was lost)
Northern Vs. Italian Renaissance
French Invasions of Italy leads to Renaissance in Northern Europe mid
Italian Renaissance
Patronage of church
Nude painting
Viewed medieval period sad interlude between time
Individualism
15th century
Northern Renaissance
Didn’t have patronage of church
Religiosity remained important
Non nudes
Viewed medieval period as establishment of
Political institutions and customs
Christian humanism (Christian past)- editing texts
To early Christian writings
Desiderius Erasmus
Priests claimed “that they’ve properly performed their duty if they reel off perfunctorily their feeble prayers which
I’d be greatly surprised if any God could hear or understand.”