Renaissance Era

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Renaissance Era

• Unit 7

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Beginning

• Started in northern Italy, then spread throughout
  Europe
• Trade with Muslims Classical knowledge Blend
  of Ideas
• Height of Renaissance in England is known as the
  Elizabethan Era

3
Humanism

• Focus on reason and logic
• No longer faith and religion
• Rebirth of Classical knowledge
• From ancient Greece and Rome

4
Art

• Shift of attention from religious to human
  experience
• More realistic and 3-D
• Perspective
• Painting style
• Da Vinci and Raphael
• Sculpture style
• Michelangelo and Donatello

5
Holidays

• Resurgence of pagan roots
• Carnival
• May Day
• Michaelmas
• Twelfth Night

6
Music

• Instruments
• Bards
• Songs style and topics
• Compare a similar modern song

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Fashion

• Upper class Womens fashion
• Upper class Mens fashion
• Gender roles
• Lower class fashion

8
Entertainment

• Shock value
• Daring, life-threatening
• Pagan (taboo)
• Jousting
• Falconry
• Palmistry and Magicians
• Dancing

9
Literature

• Vernacular language gets improved and formalized
• Shakespeare
• Printing press
• Language style
• Marlowe and Spenser

10
Social Order

• Nationalism accompanies a rise in monarchal power
• No more feudalism
• Government (Florence)
• Government (England)
• Social Class
• Machiavelli