Chapter I: The Spirit of the Renaissance
Vocabulary: austere, bull (n.; not the animal), courtier, maritime, materialism, opportunist, quay, seditions, vernacular, wholly
1. The Italian City State
2. Florence
i. Government ii. Lorenzo de’ Medici
iii. Florentine Society
Read p. 25 - 29.
v. The Artists and Builders
vi. The Reformer: Savonarola
2. Venice and Her Painters
4. Renaissance Rome
i. The Popes
ii. Architects and Artists in Rome
Read p. 55 - 60
Michelangelo
Raphael
Vocabulary: oligarchy, repudiate, prestige
1. Maximilian. 1493 - 1519
2. Charles V. 1519 - 1556
Vocabulary: sagacity, turbulent, jurisdiction, fortitude, gravity (adj.), parsimonious, dilatory, immutable, phlegmatic, autocratic, uniformity
1. Ferdinand and Isabella
2. Philip II. 1556 - 1598
Read p. 88 - 90.
Muslim Spain and European Culture
Salamanca
Miguel de Cervantes
Diego Velazque
Vocabulary: reparation, dissimulation, vindictive, conciliate, insatiable, whet, ignoble, wont, consolidate, vindictive, taciturn, virulent
Timeline: Hundred Years' War
Causes of the Hundred Years' War
Read p. 91 - 93
Charles VII
Jacques Coeur’s Palace
Portrait of Louis XI, written by Philippe de Commynes
2. French Kings and the Italian Wars
i. Charles VIII. 1485 - 1498
ii. Louis XII. 1498 - 1515
iii. Francis I. 1515 - 1547
iv. Henry II. 1547 - 1559
3. The Court of France in the Sixteenth Century
4. French Architecture and Sculpture
Vocabulary: avaricious, alienate
1. The Foundation of the Tudor Monarchy
Read p. 113 - 116.
2. Henry VIII. 1509 - 1547
3. Economic Troubles under Edward VI.
4. The Five Years of Mary Tudor
Chapter VII: The Renaissance in the North
Vocabulary: dispensation, vernacular
1. The Printers of the Renaissance
6. Two German Artists
Vocabulary: liberal (as in liberal arts), stipend, iconoclast, mien
Read p. 157 - 158.
1. European Educators of the Renaissance
2. English Education
i. John Colet
ii. Some English Books on Education
iii. The Sixteenth Century School
3. The Education of Women
1. Leonardo da Vinci: The Man of Science
Read p. 179 - 180.
Exploring Leonardo
2. Copernicus, 1473 - 1543
2. The Spanish Conquistadores
3. The First English and French Explorers
Read p. 216 - 220.
3. The Huguenots in France
Vocabulary: dissolution, chantries
ii. The Dissolution of the Monasteries
iii. Cranmer and the Prayer Book of Edward VI
4. The Elizabethan Settlement
iii. The Revolt of the Netherlands
2. Civil War in France
i. In the Days of Catherine de'Medici
ii. Henry IV and the Edict of Nantes
1. Reforms within the Roman Church
Read p. 279 - 282.
2. St. Ignatius of Loyola and the Jesuit Order
3. St. Teresa 1515 - 1582
Vocabulary: capricious, dauntless, autocrat, circumspeciton, judiciously, liturgy, privateer, usury, arable
1. Elizabeth and Her Times
2. Elizabeth and Her Government
3. The Religious Policy of Elizabeth
6. Elizabethan Sailors
i. Adventure and Discovery
7. England at Work and at Play
i. Industries and Commerce
ii. London Town
iii. In the Country
8. England Out of Work
9. Troubles in Ireland
10. The Spirit of the Age in Poetry, Prose & Music
