Unit One Homework: Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Monday 8/10/15 379-387
The Crisis of the Later Middle Ages
1. Identify three events that your book would refer to as being a “prelude to disaster”.
2. When did the plague arrive in Italy? Where is it supposed to have come from?
3. Identify two reasons that the plague spread so rapidly:
4. How is England representative of the significance of the Bubonic Plague?
5. Why did the price of wheat and other products rise as a result of the Bubonic Plague?
6. Why did the per capita income of the “broad mass of people” rise after the Plague?
7. What was a flagellant?
Big picture statement (complete sentence)
Tuesday 8/11/15 387-393
The Hundred Years’ War
1. What was the principle cause of the Hundred Years War?
2. What was the popular response of the people to the war in:
a. France
b. England
3. What happened at the battles of;
a. Crecy
b. Agincourt
4. What did Joan of Arc do in this story?
a. What happened to her? Why? Who did it?
5. In what ways did the Hundred Years war have a “profound impact on the political and cultural lives of the two countries”?
Big picture statement (complete sentence)
Wednesday 8/12/15
Pgs. 413-419
The Evolution of the Italian Renaissance
1. How did the Renaissance differ from the High Middle Ages?
2. Why was Florence, Italy the initial city to embrace the Renaissance ideals?
3. What was the relationship between the Medici family, Pope Alexander VI, Cesare Borgia and Niccolo Machiavelli?
4. What role did Girolamo Savonarola play in Florentine politics?
5. What happened to Italy and Rome in particular in 1494 and 1527? What were the effects of this?
Big picture statement (complete sentence)
Thursday 8/13/15
Pgs. 419-422
Intellectual Hallmarks of the Renaissance
1. How did Francesco Petrarch view the Renaissance?
2. In what way was individualism a hallmark of the Renaissance?
3. How was Pico della Mirandola’s Oration on the Dignity of Man an excellent example of Renaissance Humanism?
4. How was Boccaccio’s Decameron representative of the secular attitude of the Renaissance?
5. How did the High Renaissance differ from the general renaissance?
Big picture statement (complete sentence)
Friday 8/14/15
Pgs. 422-428
Art and the Artist
1. According to your text, what was the relationship between Art and Power?
2. How was the content and style of Renaissance Art decidedly different from those of the middle ages?
6. Identify the following artists with their key contributions to renaissance art:
a. Giotto –
b. Donatello –
c. Massaccio –
d. Michelangelo
e. Lorenzo Ghiberti –
Big picture statement (complete sentence)
Monday 8/17/15 Pgs. 428-433; 410-411
Social Change; Christine de Pisan
1. How was each of the following books representative of core Renaissance values?
A. The Courtier by Baldassare Castiglione (1528):
B. The Prince by Niccolo Macchiaveli
2. What do you think, as a ruler would you think it better to be feared or loved? Why?
3. In what way does Laura Cereta illustrate the successes and failures of educated Renaissance women?
4. Did the Renaissance impact the lives of ordinary women?
5. What happened with clocks?
6. Who was Christine de Pisan and why is she significant?
Big picture statement (complete sentence)
Tuesday 8/18/15
Pgs 438-447; 450-451
The Renaissance in the North
1. How did the northern renaissance emphasis differ from the Italian emphasis?
2. How is Thomas More’s work Utopia (1516) representative of Northern Humanist thought?
3. What two themes run through all of Erasmus’ work?
4. What was the purpose of Rabelais’s Gargantua and Pantagruel?
Politics and the State in the Renaissance; an Age of Gold
5. What was asserted in the Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges (1438)?
6. How did the Concordat of Bologna (1516) change the relationship between the King of France and the Pope? What were the terms of the Concordat?
7. Briefly, what happened in the Wars of the Roses (1455-1471)?
8. What was the reconquista? Was it successful? When?
9. What was the Spanish Inquisition?
10. What would you say are the essential differences between Erasmus’s educational goals and those of Modern society?
Big picture statement (complete sentence)
Friday 8/20/15
Renaissance Exam