Intro to the Renaissance: The Late Middle Ages

Intro to the Renaissance:

The Late Middle Ages

c. 1300 – c. 1500

Economy and society• Government :

centralized?• Economy:

agriculture? Commerce?

• Values and relationship among social classes?

Role of the Churcho Religious? o Political?o Cultural?

TIMOR DEI PRINCIPIUM SAPIENTIAE

Role of the Church

Role of the Church: o Religious:

o Political:

o Cultural:

o salvation, fight against heresy

o upper clergy: aristocrats, landowners. Great economic and political power

o education, keepers of Classical knowledge

Pagan World Views of the Classical

(Pagan) world: positive?

Pagan World Views of the

Classical world: o Classical world is

PAGAN in a world dominated by Christian values.

o Some aspects of the Classical world are imitated but Christianized, others are suppressed.

The Black Death

First appeared in Italy in 1347 and spread to the rest of Europe.

It killed more than a third of Europe’s seventy million people.

The Black Plague

The Black Plague

The Black Plague

Danse macabre 1Danse macabre 2

I Spyo A kingo A soldiero A couple of loverso A noble woman o A peasant woman

Consequences of the Black Death:

Depopulation Migration to cities: revitalization of urban

life Opportunities for class mobility: demand

of workers Dislocation of social order and social

clashes Rising secularism End of feudalism in many areas

Terminology Medieval? Middle Ages? Renaissance?

Terminology Medieval: (Lat) medium

aevummiddle age

Renaissance: Re-birth (of the Classical World)

(It: Rinascimento, <Lat nascor, natum (to be born), French: Renaissance)

From the point of view of the people of the Renaissance the Middle Ages is the period between the Classical World and its rebirth in their time.

Terminology

3. Renaissance vs. Medieval Art: A

3. Renaissance vs. Medieval Art: A

3. Renaissance vs. Medieval Art. B

3. Renaissance vs. Medieval Art: B

3. Renaissance vs. Medieval Art: C

3. Renaissance vs. Medieval art: C

3. Renaissance vs. Medieval Art: D

3-Renaissance vs. Medieval Art: D

3. Renaissance vs. Medieval Art : E

3. Renaissance vs. Medieval Art: F

3. Renaissance vs. Medieval Art: G

4. Florence Baptistery (1401-1402)