1. Recovery and Rebirth: The Renaissance
Chapter 12
Recovery and Rebirth:
The Renaissance

2. Meaning and Characteristics of the Renaissance
Making of Renaissance Society
Social Changes in the Renaissance
Peasants and Townspeople
Family and Marriage in Renaissance Italy
Italian States
Birth of Modern Diplomacy
Machiavelli and the New Statecraft
Italian Renaissance Humanism
Education, History and the Impact of Printing
Art in the Early Renaissance
The Artist and Social Status
European State in the Renaissance
The Church and the Renaissance

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4. Meaning and Characteristics of the Italian Renaissance
Jacob Burkhardt
Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860)
Age of Recovery
Emphasis on individual ability

5. The Making of Renaissance Society
Economic Recovery
Revival in trade
Italian cities lose economic supremacy
Hanseatic League
Manufacturing
Banking
Florence and the Medici

6. Social Changes in the Renaissance
The Nobility
Reconstruction of the aristocracy
Aristocracy: 2 – 3 percent of the population
Baldassare Castiglione (1478 – 1529)
The Book of the Courtier (1528)

7. Peasants and Townspeople
Decline of manorial system and serfdom
Urban Society
Patricians
Petty burghers, shopkeepers, artisans, guildmasters, and guildsmen
The poor and unemployed
Slaves

8. Family & Marriage in Renaissance Italy
Husbands and Wives
Marriages
Husbands
Wives
Children
Wealthy and Poor
Sexual Norms
Prostitution – city regulation

9. The Italian States in the Renaissance
Five Major Powers
Milan
Venice
Florence
The Papal States
Kingdom of Naples
Independent City-States
Mantua
Ferrara
Urbino
The Role of Women
Warfare in Italy

10. Map 12.1: Renaissance Italy

11. The Birth of Modern Diplomacy
Modern diplomacy a product of Renaissance Italy
Changing concept of the ambassador
Resident ambassadors
Agents of the territorial state

12. Machiavelli and the New Statecraft
Niccolo Machiavelli (1469 – 1527)
The Prince

13. Italian Renaissance Humanism
Classical Revival
Petrarch (1304 – 1374)
Humanism in Fifteenth-Century Italy
Humanism and Philosophy
Translates Plato’s dialogues
Synthesis of Christianity and Platonism

14. Education, History, and the Impact of Printing
Education in the Renaissance
Humanism and History
Secularization
The Impact of Printing
Johannes Gutenberg
The spread of printing

15. Art in the Early Renaissance
Masaccio (1401 – 1428)

16. Masaccio, Tribute Money

17. Raphael, School of Athens

18. The Artist and Social Status
Early Renaissance
High Renaissance
Heroes

19. The European State in the Renaissance
The Renaissance State in Western Europe
France
England
Spain
Unification of Castile and Aragón
Establishment of professional royal army
Religious uniformity
The Inquisition
Conquest of Granada
Expulsion of the Jews

20. Map 12.2: Europe in the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century

21. Map 12.3: The Iberian Peninsula

22. The Church in the Renaissance
The Problems of Heresy and Reform
John Wycliff (c – 1384) and Lollardy
John Hus (1374 – 1415)
Urged the elimination of worldliness and corruption of the clergy
Burned at the stake (1415)
Church Councils
The Papacy
The Renaissance Papacy
Julius II (1503 – 1513)
“Warrior Pope”
Nepotism
Patrons of Culture
Leo X (1513 – 1521)