Study Guide: Module 1 - Late Medieval Era and the Renaissance (1450-1550) Test: _____________________

This test will cover everything we talked about in class, including notes, handouts, readings, and

homework. If you are at all confused over what we have been discussing, get the notes from someone,

come to me, or look back over the textbook.

Here are some of the main topics you will need to know for the test:

1. Late Middle Ages j. feminism

A. feudalism a) Giovanni Boccaccio

B. Medieval Inquisition i) Concerning

a. Cathars Famous Women

b. Knights Templar b) Christine de Pisan

c. witchcraft i) Book of the City

C. Great Western Schism of Ladies

D. Black Plague k. political thought

E. 100 Years War a) Machiavelli

F. Ottoman advances i) The Prince

a. defeat of Constantinople b) Thomas More

b. defeat of Christianity i) Utopia

c. end of Byzantine Empire l. science

d. closed trade routes to the East a) Copernicus

e. reintroduced Greek and Roman texts i) heliocentrism

2. Renaissance m. printing press

A. Why Italy? a) Gutenberg

a. trade ports 3. Italian politics

b. geography A. weakness of Italy

c. industrial growth B. Florence

d. fall of Byzantine Empire a. Medici Bank

B. Humanism b. political dynasty

a. reason a) Cosimo de Medici

b. education b) civic patronage

c. personal growth and development c) secular freedom

d. Thomas Aquinas d) Pazzi Conspiracy

a) reason and “natural law” e) Italian Wars

e. Dante Alighieri c. Savonarola

f. Petrarch a) Bonfire of the Vanities

a) Letters C. Sack of Rme

b) Cicero 4. Renaissance art

c) opposed Scholasticism A. classical themes

g. Erasmus B. realism

a) Christian Humanism C. humanism

i) focus on the Bible D. Florentines

ii) focus on improving society a. Brunelleschi

h. Pico della Mirandola a) Cathedral of Florence

a) Oration on the Dignity of Man (Brunelleschi’s Dome)

i. Baldassare Castiglione b. Botticelli

a) The Book of the Courtier a) The Adoration of the Magi

b) The Allegory of Spring

c) The Birth of Venus

c. da Vinci

a) Mona Lisa

b) Vitruvian Man

d. Michelangelo

a) Temptation of St. Anthony

b) Sistine Chapel

c) David

d) St. Peter’s Basilica

e. Raphael

a) School of Athens

E. Venetians

a. Titian

F. Northern Renaissance

a. Bosch

b. Bruegel

a) Peasant Wedding

c. Durer

Vocabulary

Antiquity Humanism geocentrism secularism Heliocentrism

vernacular feminist renaissance republic tithe

Also, make sure you can tell me the similarities, differences, and connections between the following:

- Humanists and the Church

- Erasmus vs. Savonarola

- Machiavelli’s ideas with govt’s at the time

- Art as part of the humanist movement

- Catholic Church: lofty goals but corrupt practices?

- early Renaissance or Middle Ages?

- Italian Renaissance vs. Northern Renaissance