The+Renaissance

End of Feudalism and Renaissance (1300-1750)


 * Generic attributes of feudalism: agriculture, guilds, kings versus nobles, kings versus popes, popes versus cardinals
 * Social and Political Breakdown (1300-1527)
 * Generic description of the Renaissance
 * Compare and Contrast: Renaissance in the south versus Renaissance in the north.
 * The Italian City-State
 * Individualism and humanism
 * The beginning of reform.
 * Burckhardt Thesis
 * Kelly Thesis
 * Main contributors in art, architecture, literature, and science
 * In what ways was the Renaissance more secular?
 * What was new and what was ‘reborn’ in the Renaissance?