12th Century Renaissance PDF

The Twelfth Century Renaissance Class Agenda for November 6, 2023 1. Warm-up Question and some responses 2. Learning Objective: SWBAT understand the causes and effects of the 12th Century Renaissance 3. Essential Question: How did the 12th Century Renaissance affect the evolution Europe? 4. Discus...

The Twelfth Century Renaissance Class Agenda for November 6, 2023 1. Warm-up Question and some responses 2. Learning Objective: SWBAT understand the causes and effects of the 12th Century Renaissance 3. Essential Question: How did the 12th Century Renaissance affect the evolution Europe? 4. Discuss the 12th Century Renaissance 5. Homework: Read an Article on the 12th Century Renaissance on Schoology 6. Exit ticket Arts and Architecture - Romanesque - similar to Roman architecture with rounded arches - Gothic (nothing to do with Goths), pointed arches, gargoyles, highly decorated with statues Chartres Cathedral: built between 1145-1220 Antwerp Cathedral is the largest Gothic church in the Low Countries. It was built originally in the 10th century and into twelfth century and into a Romanesque church. - Between 1350 and 1553, it was rebuilt into the Gothic Cathedral that dominates the skyline of present day Antwerp, Belgium. Gothic Art, sculpture, panel painting, stained glass, fresco and illuminated manuscript - Man becomes more “human” - By the end of the middle ages, Humanism begins to emerge in medieval society; - Man becomes less Christian and more human (individualism). - People began to doubt that all are doomed to damnation, but still deeply religious. Scholasticism: scholars support church doctrine through study, reason, and logic. - Thomas Aquinas; Tabula rasa: the mind at birth is a ‘blank slate’ - Man can think and recognize ideas through a divine spark. Thomas Aquinas: one of the Church’s greatest thinkers. His works are as influential as Bible - He created arguments for the existence of God. Aquinas created a logical argument: The intricate design and order of existent things and natural processes implies that a Great Designer must exist. - Therefore, it gives proof for the existence of God, according to Thomas Aquinas - He believed that the contemplative life is greater than the active life. Similar to what Plato and Aristotle Desire for Knowledge—Only men, for the most part, were “educated” - Love of knowledge for the sake of learning – not for the Church or for the Law - New Universities—Oxford, Paris, Bologna - Scholars read Latin classics, traveled to Spain to learn from Muslim scholars, traveled to Constantinople to read “lost” Greek texts, revived science, philosophy, math, and medicine The Liberal Arts: - Trivium: Grammar, logic, rhetoric - Quadrivium: Arithmetic, Geometry, Music, Astronomy a “Classical Education” - Not possible without recovery from Islamic and Byzantine scholarship Rise of Merchant class, people could move up the social ladder - Peasants believed the Crusade was a way to rise in status and wealth… most died. - Plague in the 14th century caused the rigid social structure to break down