Week of March 19-23

Monday- 

Michaelangelo

  • David
  • Sistine chapel
  • La pieta
  • Creation of Adam

Leonardo Da Vinci

  • Painter, Sculptor, Architect, Engineer
  • Vitruvian Man
  • Mona Lisa
  • The Last Supper

Raphael

  • School of Athens

Niccolo Machiavelli

  • Wrote The Prince

The Renaissance Spreads

  • Late 1400's
    • Renaissance ideas had spread to Northern Europe
      • England, France, Germany, Flanders

The Elizabethan Age

  • Renaissance spread to England in mid 1500's 
  • Elizabeth I reigned from 1558-1603
  • Well educated, spoke French, Italian, Latin, and Greek and also wrote poetry and music
  • Supported the development of English art and literature

William Shakespreare

  • Playwriter
    • Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, Romeo and Juliet

Gutenbergs Printing Press

  • 1455 he printed the King James Bible
  • allowed people to be educated and entertained

Legacy of the Renaissance

  • Paintings and Sculptures
    • individuals and nature in more realistic ways
  • Artists created secular works as well as religious
  • Writers began to use vernacular(local) languages

 Tuesday- 

Martin Luther

  • Causes of reformation
    • humanism and secularism
      • questions the church
    • printing press
      • spread critical ideas of church
    • monarchs
      • challenged the churches power
    • princes and kings were jealous of churches wealth
    • resented having to pay taxes
    • church leaders became worldly and corrupt
    • many found church practices unacceptable
  • He was a monk
  • Teacher
  • upset with indulgences
    • Church was selling them to pay for St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome
  • Wrote 95 Theses focused on 3 beliefs
    • Bible is central religious authority
    • Humans may reach salvation by faith and not by deeds
    • All people of faith are equal
  • His question to Pope Leo X
    • Why does no tthe pope, whose wealth today is greather than the wealth of the richest Crassus, build the basilica of St. Peter with his own money rather than with the money fo poor believers. 
  • Respose to theses
    • Pope Leo X excommunicated Luther
    • Holy Roman Emperor Charles V issued the Edict of Worms
      • declared Luther an outlaw and heretic and ordered his works to be burned
      • Prince Frederick the Wise of Saxony hid Luther for a year in Wartburg Castle
    • After this incident, Lutheranism became a seperate religious group

 

Wednesday- 

Reformation Wars

  • Most conflicts were ended with the Peace of Westphalia(1648)
    • Recognized three christian traditions
      • Roman Catholicism
      • Lutheranism
      • Calvinism
    • Established a new system of political order in central Europe based upon the concept of sovereign states
  • Early Christian Chruch
    • Eastern Orthodoxy
    • Roman Catholicism
      • Protestantism
        • Lutheranism
        • Anglicanism
          • Episcopalian
          • Baptist
          • Methodist
          • Pentecostal
        • Calvinism
          • Presbyterian
          • Reformed

Thursday- Watch video over Henry VIII

Friday- Finish Video

King Edward VI

  • King Henry's only son
  • Son of Jane Seymour
  • 9 when he took the throne
  • died at 15 due to illness
  • led by strong protestant leaders

Queen Mary

  • Daughter of Catherine of Aragon
  • First Queen of England
  • Leader for 5 years
  • Catholic
  • Had many protestants killed and was called Bloody Mary

Queen Elizabeth I

  • Restored Protestantism to Enland
  • Only legal church in England
  • Did make deals to appease protestnat and catholics when forming the Anglican Church
  • Was queen when England began thiking about colonizing America

John Calvin

Calvanism

  • It is predetermined who will be saved

Anabaptists

  • Mennonites or amish
  • believed only adults should be baptized
  • believed in separtation of church and state
  • persecuted by catholics and Lutherans

Catholic Reformation

  • Jesuits
    • Fouded superb schools
    • worked to convert non-Christians to Catholicism
    • Worked to stop the spread of Protestantism
  • Council of Trent
    • Chruch's interpretation of the Bible was final
      • anyone who had their own interpretation was a heretic
    • Christians needed faith and good works for salvation
    • Bible and Church tradition were equally powerful
    • Indulgences were valid expressions of faith
  • Legacy o fthe Reformation
    • Religious and social effects
      • Church is unified
      • protestant denominations grow
      • created schools
      • status of women does not improve
    • Political effects
      • Catholic Church's power lessens, monarch power grows
      • questioning of beliefs brings intellectual ferment
      • The Enlightenment
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