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Early Renaissance
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Giotto, Mourning of Christ
(1305 AD)
Giotto, Madonna
Enthroned
(1310 AD)
Ghiberti, Detail
from the Gates of Paradise (East Door)
The story of Joseph (1425-52)
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Key Questions
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- Compare the emergence of European
thought into the Renaissance with the emergence of Greek thought into
the Periclean Era.
- What changes in the European
culture are reflected in the shift in styles from Romanesque to Gothic?
- What is the relationship between
the changing mode of production and the values and political/social
structures being developed in Renaissance Italy?
- How does Petrarch challenge the
ideas of scholasticism and promote humanism?
- Why did Chaucer write in English?
- What are the ways in which Chaucer
anticipates the Renaissance?
- How does Chaucer’s portrait of
English society at the end of the fourteenth century reveal the changes
for good and ill overtaking Medieval Europe as it entered the
Renaissance?
- How does Chaucer manipulate his
persona in his satire?
- Compare the key ideas of the
Renaissance with those of the Greeks during the Periclean
Era.
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Early
Renaissance Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual,
Religious
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Early
Renaissance Art:
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Early
Renaissance Literature:
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Early
Renaissance Music:
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Primary Sources:
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Primary Sources:
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Primary Sources:
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Primary Sources:
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- Boccaccio, from The Decameron (1350):
Novel VI;
"The Plague in Florence";
Selected
Tales (Gibbs)
- Langland, from Piers the Plowman. (1369-99)
(Harvard Page)
- Petrarch, Il Canzionere
(1374); Familiar Letters;
The Ascent of Mount Ventoux; "A young lady beneath a green
laurel"(Reading About the World)
- The Pearl Poet, Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight (c. 1375)
- Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales:
(1390) General Prologue;
"The Wife of Bath's Prologue
and Tale"; "The Miller’s Tale";
"The Knight's Tale";
"The Reeve's Tale"
- Middle English Mystery Plays (Luminarium)
- Everyman, late-15th-c.
morality play (notes) (See Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal)
- A Lytel
Geste of Robyn
Hode (1387)
- de Bornelh,
Troubadour Songs
- Christine di
Pisan, Poems (1365-1431?)
- Book IV of Malory,
L'Morte de Arthur
(1485)
- Villon, Selected Poems
; Complete Works (1461)
- Old English Popular Ballads
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- Jacopo da
Bologna, Madrigal: Fenice
fu, (c.1350)
- Machaut, Rose, liz, printemps,
verdure part
one, part
two, part
three ; La Messe de Nostre
Dame, Agnus
Dei: part
one, part
two, part
three mass (c. 1364), excerpt: Kyrie
- Dunstable, Motet: Quam pulchra
es
(c. 1430)
- Ockeghem, Missa
De plus en plus: Kyrie (c.1480)
- Dufay, Mass Se la face ay pale
(d.1474)
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Massacio, Tribute Money
1427 AD
Bosch,
The Garden of Earthly
Delights (1466)
Bosch,
The Garden of Earthly
Delights (detail) (1466)
Limbourg Brothers October,
from Les Trés
Riches
Heures du Duc de Berry
1413-1416.
Brunelleschi, Pazzi Chapel 1440
Bosch, Christ Carrying the Cross
(1490)
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Early
Renaissance Political, Social, Economic, Intellectual Religious
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The Great Plague:
Science in the Middle Ages:
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Boccaccio:
Chaucer:
Chaucer's "The Miller's Tale":
Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Prologue
Robin Hood:
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Lesson Plans and Presentations:
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