[Renaissance ]
  
 Before class 
  
      * Read Palmer, 47-77, reread 39-42
  
      * Key terms
  
	Black Death 
	Hundred Years' War 
	John Wyclif 
	John Huss 
	Babylonian Captivity 
	Great Schism 
	indulgence 
	Medici 
	Florence 			
	The Prince
	Christian humanism 
	Copernicus 
	Sisters/Brothers of the Common Life 
	Erasmus of Rotterdam 
	Ferdinand and Isabella 
	Hapsburg 
	Charles V 

      * Key concepts
  
	Renaissance 
	humanism 
  
      * Key questions


1. What difficulties and challenges did the church and papacy face in the fourteenth century? 
How were they resolved?

2. How did the Renaissance in Europe north of the Alps differ from the Renaissance in Italy? 
  
3. How did Charles V become the most powerful ruler of his day? 

4. What political and nonpolitical developments were important to the emergence of  
Protestantism? 
  

[Renaissance]

In class 
  
      * Outline 
  
		1. Renaissance: intellectual reorientation 
  
			a.  emphases 
			b.  accomplishments 
  
		2. Christian humanism 
  
			a.  causes 
			b.  contributions 
  
		3. Renaissance: politics
  
			a.  Renaissance state 
			b.  exploration 
  
      * Key terms 
  
	humanism 
	scholasticism 
        Christine de Pisan
	Leonardo da Vinci
	Christian humanism 
	Desiderius Erasmus, Praise of Folly, Handbook of the Christian Knight
	Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince
	New Monarchies 
	Antwerp 
 
      * Key concept: individualism 
  
      * Key question
  
	What was the significance of humanism to early modern Europe? 
		
      * Key quotation

	Politics has no relations with morality.

				Machiavelli