Merriman Teacher Notes 15 Summer 2023 PDF

# Middle Ages Education Dominated by Scholasticism = Application of Aristotelian Questions/Merged/A Scholastic Ideal - Law - Medicine - Theology ## The Renaissance Man and Woman - Humanists studied Latin grammar, rhetoric, metaphysics, humanities ("good citizen") - Believed they revived glory of c...

# Middle Ages Education Dominated by Scholasticism = Application of Aristotelian Questions/Merged/A Scholastic Ideal - Law - Medicine - Theology ## The Renaissance Man and Woman - Humanists studied Latin grammar, rhetoric, metaphysics, humanities ("good citizen") - Believed they revived glory of classical age (Middle Ages = Dark Age) - Saw scholastics as irrelevant - Emulated ancient Roman thinkers, writers, statesmen - Still claimed Christianity ## The Renaissance and Religion - Humanists folded ancient works into Christianity: - *Aeneid* as allegory for the itinerary of Christian soul ## The Renaissance Man - Literature/poetry preoccupied with nature, beauty (**"poetry for occupational nature"**) - Placed individual in highest/most central place - Humans as heroic, divine, rational, prudent - possibility for moral greatness. ### Castiglione *Book of the Courtier* (1528) - Described ideal man at court: - Knew classical languages and many others - Paint, sing, write poetry - Advise and counsel - Run, jump, swim, wrestle - Renaissance man = good at everything/interested in everything ### Leonardo da Vinci - Painter, sculptor - Scientist, architect, military engineer. - Inventor, philosopher - Apprenticed to Florentine painter, Donatello - Joined master - 1482 moved to Milan, patronage of Sforza family - Taught students in workshop - Studied human anatomy - Compiled notebooks of ideas and discoveries ### Giovani Pico della Mirandola "Oration on the Dignity of Man" - Individual = independent & autonomous, make own moral choices - Autobiography, portrait, self-portrait - Show emphasis on human rather than divine ### Most Universities Stayed in Scholasticism Vein Rather than Humanist - **Giovanni Pico della Mirandola** "oration on the Dignity of Man" - Individual = independent & autonomous - "Make own moral choices" - Autobiography, portrait, self-portrait - Show emphasis on human rather than divine ### Renaissance Courts - Women Less of a Role Than in Medieval World - Women @ court to be decorative - Authors idealized love & women - BUT the role of women was to serve fathers/husbands - Men's feelings/thoughts were the focus of Renaissance writers - Women's feelings thought as unimportant or assumed - 1500 da Vinci back to Florence, 1506 back to Milan (under control of French King Francis I) - Went to Rome, paid salary by Pope Leo X - Francis I - 1514-19 artist for French King ### Renaissance Mostly "Discovery" of the Dignity & Agency of Men - Women still considered enticers to evil (Eve) - Women definitely subordinate to men. - Not sell property w/o a husband's consent - Poor families more likely to abandon girl/babies than boy - *Babies* = liability b/c dowry payments ### Some Wealthier Families Sent Daughters to Convents - Allowed for scholarship and leadership roles for women. ### Some Families Educated Girls + Boys in Humanities *of* Tutors. - Some very wealthy women published works/coveromen - Publishers, book sellers, printers - Needed family link to guild ## Renaissance Courts - Women less of a role than in Medieval world - Women @ court to be decorative - Authors idealized love & women, BUT the role of woman was to serve fathers/husbands - Men's feelings/thoughts were the focus of Renaissance writers - Women's feelings thought as unimportant or assumed