THE RENAISSANCEA FLOURISH OF GENIUS

1485-1660

Cultural Attitude of the Renaissance

Renaissance = Rebirth (Greece/ Rome) Mostly joyous and progressive era due to it

being post-tragedyBlack Death

The arts, sciences, and literatures all flourished.Also religion became reshaped and also grew

Full of humanism- emphasis on the values of individuality and intellectual reform of humans

Better Known Historical Events 1492- Christopher Columbus lands in the

Americas in the West Indies 1517- Martin Luther posts his ninety-five theses

in Wittenburg, Germany 1521- Cortes conquers Mexico and destroys the

Aztec Empire 1607- First permanent American settlement in

Jamestown, Virginia 1611- King James Bible published 1655- Jews are legally re-admitted to England

after being expelled in 1290

Not as Well Known Events

1485- Richard III of England is killed in battle

1503- Leonardo da Vinci pains Mona Lisa

1517- First records of peoples from Africa taken as slaves to the Americas

1564- William Shakespeare born 1639- Japan expels all Europeans

except the Dutch

Discoveries

The Americas Many anatomical discoveries by doing

autopsies and transferring their medical findings to books and journals.

Copernicus found that the sun is the center of the solar system and earth revolves around it through Astronomy.

Magellan completely proving that the world is round by circumnavigating it with his crew.

Major Writers and Texts Shakespeare (1564-1616)

○ King Lear○ Macbeth○ Various “Sonnets”○ Romeo & Juliet

Newspapers first get

published in London (1621) Cervantes

○ Don Quixote

John Milton (1608-1674)○ Paradise Lost○ Comus

Important People Explorers: Columbus(1492),

Vasco da Gama(1498),

Balboa(1513), Magellan(1519),

Cortes(1521)

English Leaders (by order of death/crowning): Richard III(1485), Henry VIII(1509), Mary “Bloody” Tudor(1553),

Elizabeth I(1558), Oliver Cromwell(1658), Charles II(1660)

William Shakespeare Galileo Galilei

Crowning of Queen Elizabeth II(1953)

Extra Facts

The ideas of the Renaissance begin in Italy and flourished outward into, primarily, the rest of Europe.

Leo, Don, Mikey, and Raf all had impacts to the Renaissance Society.

Many ideas from the re-birth of

Greek and Roman ideas on self-awareness are still used today.

Sources

Holt, Rinehart, Winston, Elements of Literature 6th Course

http://rmn.fr/english/children/museum-experience/the-renaissance-15th-16th/inventions-and-discoveries

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance