Zusammenfassung der Ressource
RENAISSANCE
- 14th - 17th Centuries
- A global economy
- The rebirth of
Classical Ideas
- Ancient Greece
and Rome
- Crusades
- Muhammad II of Ottoman Empire
- Power of Church and
Kings Challenged
- People started
thinking
independently
- Printing
- Johannes
Gutemberg
- Famous First Printed Bible
- William Caxton
- Faster and Cheaper
- Less church power as
monks used to write all
books and control them.
- Florence, Italy
- Medicis
family
- Patrons
- Politics
- Nicolas Maquiavelo
Anmerkungen:
- - "Never was anything great achieved without danger."
- Florentine civil servant.
- Book "The Prince".
- Science
- Nicholas
Copernicus
Anmerkungen:
- - Studied Astronomy.
- Earth revolves around the sun.
- Never published because it was too dangerous.
- Galileo
Galilei
Anmerkungen:
- - Built a 30x telescope.
- Earth revolves around the sun.
- Published a book.
- Forced to repudiate his beliefs or face the death penalty.
- Medicine
- Andreas
Versalius
Anmerkungen:
- - Professor of Anatomy.
- Disected bodies.
- Drawings.
- Writers
- William
Shakespeare
Anmerkungen:
- - World Famous writer.
- Also was an actor.
- Built a theater called the Globe.
- Wrote Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, The Tempest...
- Francesco
Petrarch
Anmerkungen:
- Arts
- Leonardo da
Vinci
- Michaelangelo
- Raphael
- Botticelli
- Changed
- Non religious themes
- Nudes
- Use of
perspective
- Architects
- Filippo Brunelleschi
- Humanism