RENAISSANCE IN MEDIEVAL EUROPE
Themes
- order and spirit
- renaissances
Environment and Development
- regionalism in "Christendom"
- western Europe: Holy Roman Empire (aka Germany), France, British Isles (England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland), Iberia (Spain, Portugal), Italian city-states
- northern Europe (Scandinavia): Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland
- eastern Europe and the Balkans: Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria
- beyond: Crusader States; Russia; Byzantium, Ottoman Empire
- Early Middle Ages, circa 500-1000
- High Middle Ages, circa 1000-1300
- Late Middle Ages/the Renaissance, circa 1300-1500
European cultures
- Political order
- "feudalism" versus centralization: Magna Carta
- kings and popes
- economic and social
- "fight, work, pray"
- urban classes: guilds
- marginalized groups:
- women
- religion
Renaissances
- renaissance=
- reform movements
- Education: faith and reason
- early medieval: grammar
- 12th century:
- universities, scholasticism
- Abelard and dialectic
- Arabic and Jewish learning: recovery of Aristotle
- Thomas Aquinas 1225-1274
- late medieval and Italian Renaissance
- nominalism
- secularity, humanism, classicism, individualism
- the "Renaissance man;" Palazzo *
- rationalism: Machiavelli 1469-1527, Lorenzo Valla 1406-1457
- the renaissance magus
- Literature and Books
- court culture: lyric, romance, Arthurian literature
- Illuminated Manuscripts
- Celtic and Scandinavian styles: Lindau Book Cover *; Book of Kells
- Carolingian: Gospel of John *; Christ as Judge, 8th cen. *;
Charles the Bald, c. 845 *
- Romanesque: 12th Century Eadwine Psalter;
Louis IX *
Peterborough Chronicle *
- Music and Architecture
- monophonic and polyphonic. Gregorian chant; Hildegard of Bingen; Music of the 14th Century
- Romanesque:
- Gothic:
- exteriority vs interiority:
- castles:
- Italian Renaissance [ArtServe]
Conclusions and Comparisons
- the "western heritage"
- renaissance dynamics
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