HIST 10 World Civ
Lect. # 19

Realities of the Renaissance I. What is the Renaissance? [Cimabue  Lorenzetti]          A. Renaissance                   • rinascinimento                   • quattrocento                   • Burckhardt Thesis          B. A New Direction (out of the Medieval World)                   • Renaissance Humanism                        - Naturalism, "this-worldly"                        - NOT Secularism                        - Arnold Hauser: elevating man vs. delighting man                   • Individual-ism (emphasis on the individual) II.  Renaissance:  Society in Turmoil          A. CHANGE:                  1. Black Death (symptoms) [map]                       • Bubonic plague (lymph) - 60-75%                       • Pneumonic plague (respritory) - 90-95%                       • Septicemic plague (blood) - 100%                           -  Dance of Death                       • Population drop (map) (map2)                 2. Social Change                       • Societal Disruption                           - Peasant Uprisings                           - Trade disrupted             B. CONTINUITIES                   • The Myth of Female Emancipation                           - Women as commodities                           - Sexual Double standard                   • Patriarchal and Paternalistic                           - Renaissance government                           - Moral oversights                   • Secular?                           - Traditional view = rise of Humanism/Secularism                           - Church as Patron          C. Conclusion                   • Florence as Renaissance Reality