Rancho Buena Vista High School
ADVANCED PLACEMENT EUROPEAN HISTORY
UNIT I: The Transition from
Medieval to Modern Europe
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Return to Advanced Placement European History Title page.
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Raphael's School of Athens is a personal
favorite from the Italian
Renaissance. It is a great example
showing the
Renaissance qualities of classicism, individualism, humanism, realism, rationalism and
secularism. |
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Unit
I Syllabus on line
TEXT READINGS:
McKay, Hill and Buckler.
A History of Western
Society. Chapter 12, pp. 378-413 (glossary)
and Chapter 13, pp. 414-449 (glossary). (This is
the publisher's site and has on-line quizzes, primary sources, and other support
materials for the text.)
:
The reading for the summer
assignment with a link to the European map
assignment. The packet for the summer assignment is
here. Get a blank
Europe map here.
: The
Renaissance Art Project assignment
SUPPLEMENTAL READINGS:
Sherman. Western Civilization: Images and Interpretations. Selected
readings.
Hammond Historical Atlas of the World.
(For an on line equivalent, try Periodical
Historical Atlas)
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ON-LINE
SUPPORT:
PowerPoint
Presentations:
The
Effects of the Middle Ages
The
Renaissance: Its Causes, Essence, and Legacy
The
Emergence of the Nation-State in Europe
Three
Themes of Power
Readings
and Notes:
Medieval
Europe: From the Fall of Rome to the Renaissance: The Summer Reading
How
to do a Discussion Question: Discussion Question #1 as an example
Notes
on the Renaissance
Renaissance Man
in His Own Words: Quotations from those who were there
Renaissance
Art: Notes on the art of the Renaissance
Machiavelli
and The Prince: Background and quotations
The
Emergence of the Nation-State in Europe: Outline notes
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Black
Plague or Black
Death made the character of Death itself become a character found
prominently in the art and literature of the time.
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Niccolò
Machiavelli, the father of modern political thought whose theories
revolutionized politics.
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FOR DAILY ASSIGNMENTS CONSULT
THE CALENDAR (Block version of
CALENDAR) ON YOUR UNIT
SYLLABUS: Remember that
the date given on the syllabus is the date the reading or assignment should
be completed.
Journal Topics
for Unit I (These are the topics given in Mr. Roswell's class and may
not always agree with those for Mr. Leary or Mr. Arias. The topics will be
added at the earliest opportunity after they are given in class.)
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CALIFORNIA
STATE STANDARDS: The following State of California content standards for Grade
10: World History, Culture and Geography, will be dealt with, in part:
10.1 Students relate the moral and ethical principles in ancient Greek
and Roman philosophy, in Judaism, and in Christianity to the development of
Western political thought.
- Analyze the similarities
and differences in Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman views of law, reason
and faith, and duties of the individual.
Analysis
skills standards are embedded in the content and will be interwoven
throughout this and every unit.
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UNIT OBJECTIVES:
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To describe the economic difficulties experienced by Europe
in the Later Middle Ages.
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To describe the effects of the Black Death (population loss, economy, culture, art)
and the repeated
attacks of plague and disease upon European society.
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To discuss war as a catalyst for the political, economic,
and social changes in Europe in the Later Middle Ages.
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To discuss the causes of the Great Schism in the Church and
the effects of that Schism upon the people and the institutions of Europe.
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To discuss the reflection of political and social developments
of Europe as found in the new national literature.
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To describe the racial and ethnic discrimination as practiced
by Europeans especially frontier settlers.
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To discuss the appropriateness of the label Renaissance
as applied to the period of transition into the Modern Age of Europe.
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To describe the effects of the Renaissance in politics, government,
and social organization.
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To describe the significant intellectual and artistic achievements
of the Renaissance.
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To discuss the changing attitudes toward religion and religious
institutions as found in the Renaissance.
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To describe the effects of the Renaissance upon the nation-states
of Europe.
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DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
1. Describe the disastrous conditions affecting the people and
institutions of Europe in the fourteenth century (1300’s).
2. If you lived in the later Middle Ages, would you want to be a
King, nobleman, church official, or a serf? Refer to the
Black Death,
Hundred
Years War, fur-collar crime, life of the people, and peasant revolts in your
answer. (Graphic
Organizer here.)
3. The
word ‘Renaissance’ (when it pertains to historical period) is always
capitalized. Why? Do you accept the validity of the reasoning that demands this?
Why or why not?
4.
Demonstrate how the ‘New Monarchs’ changed government exercising the
three
themes of power. (1:Everyone wants power. 2: Influence equals power. 3:People
follow the individual with a plan.
SHORT
ANSWERS:
1.
Describe the rise the use of vernacular languages in literature as a
reflection of the values of the Middle Ages. (Note the significance of
Dante Aligheri,
Geoffrey Chaucer,
François Villon, and
Christine de Pisan to the
Italian, English, and French languages.)
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Describe the basic organization of the Italian city-states in the
Renaissance and the balance of power achieved on the Italian peninsula in the
fifteenth century. (Do you see any relationship to the “balance of power” method
of peacekeeping in the Renaissance and in the modern world?)
3.
Describe the Northern Renaissance as distinguished from the Italian
Renaissance. (How do they compare and contrast?)
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Botticelli's Adoration of the Magi:
Renaissance art showing a traditional biblical scene with classical references,
perspective and other new techniques, and the faces of
Botticelli's Medici
patrons and Botticelli,
himself, in secular Renaissance-era dress. |
Leonardo da
Vinci's
famous drawing of the human figure is meant to demonstrate the
perfect proportions of the circle, the square, and man, reflecting his
humanistic belief in the perfectibility of man. |
| Click on thumbnails to enlarge
images. |
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"IB's"
"Important because . . ." Define and explain the significance and/or importance
of each of the following as it relates to the themes of the unit. (What is it?
It is 'important because . . .'):
1)Little Ice
Age; 2)Black
Death; 3)bubonic
plague; 4)pneumonic
plague; 5)Statute
of Laborers; 6)flagellants;
7)Dance
of Death (Danse Macabre, Todtentanz); 8)Hundred
Years’ War; 9)Treaty of Paris of
1259; 10)Salic
Law; 11)Aquitaine;
12)Battle of Crécy;
13)longbow; 14)Battle of Agincourt; 15)Joan
of Arc; 16)Siege of Orléans; 17)Parliament
(House
of Lords
and House of Commons);
18)Babylonian Captivity
(Avignon papacy); 19)St.
Catherine
of Siena; 20)Great
Schism; 21)Conciliarists, the Conciliar
Movement; 22)Marsilius
(Marsiglio)
of Padua,
Defensor Pacis; 23)John
Wyclif (Wicliffe, Wycliffe),and the
Lollards; 24)Council of
Constance; 25)Jan
Hus (John Huss); 26)merchet;
27)fur-collar
crime; 28)Jacquerie;
29)Peasants’
Revolt of 1381; 30)vernacular
languages; 31)Dante
Aligheri, The Divine Comedy;
32)Geoffrey Chaucer,
The
Canterbury Tales; 33)François Villon;
34)Christine de Pisan;
35)Renaissance;
36)popolo; 37)signori; 38)oligarchy; 39)Cosimo
de Medici; 40)Lorenzo de Medici,
"The Magnificent"; 41)Pope
Alexander VI; 42)Cesare
Borgia; 43)Girolamo
Savonarola; 44)League of
Cambrai; 45)H.R.E. Charles
V; 46)Habsburg-Valois
Wars; 47)Francesco
Petrarch; 48)Leon Battista
Alberti; 49)Benvenuto
Cellini; 50)Pope Nicholas
V; 51)humanism; 52)Pico della
Mirandola, Oration
On the Dignity of Man;
53)secularism; 54)Lorenzo Valla, On the False Donation of Constantine
(Donation of
Constantine);
55)Giovanni Boccaccio, The Decameron;
56)Pope Julius
II; 57)quattrocento
and cinquecento; 58)Leonardo da
Vinci; 59)Raphael;
60)Michelangelo; 61)Filippo Brunelleschi;
62)Lorenzo Ghiberti;
63)Giotto; 64)Donatello;
65)Masaccio; 66)perspective; 67)chiaroscuro*;
68)Baldassare Castiglione, The
Courtier; 69)Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince;
70)Gutenberg Bible;
71)Laura Cereta;
72)Christian humanism;
73)Thomas More, Utopia;
74)Desiderius Erasmus; The Praise of Folly;
75)François Rabelais, Gargantua
and Pantagruel; 76)Jan Van
Eyck; 77)Jerome (Hieronymus)
Bosch; 78)King
Charles VII of France; 79)gabelle and taille;
80)Gallican liberties;
81)King Louis XI of
France; 82)Wars of the
Roses; 83)Lancaster and
York; 84)King Henry
VII; 85)Tudor dynasty; 86)Reconquista;
87)Ferdinand
of Aragon; 88)Isabella of
Castile; 89)Moors;
90)Conversos or New Christians (Marranos
and Moriscos*);
91)hermandades;
92)Inquisition.
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| A Gallery of Renaissance
Art (Click on thumbnails for larger images.) |
Madonna in Glory by Giotto |
The Story of Joseph from The Gates of Paradise by Lorenzo
Ghiberti |
David by Donatello |
The Arnolfini Wedding by Jan van Eyck |
The Trinity by Masaccio |
Primavera by Botticelli
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The Lamentation Over the Dead Christ by Mantegna
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The Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci |
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Albrect Dürer |
The Pieta in St. Peter's Basilica by Michelangelo |
The Sistine Madonna by Raphael |
Bacchus and Ariadne by Titian
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The Fight Between Carnival and Lent by Bruegel |
The Ambassadors by Holbein |
Marriage at Cana by Veronese |
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to sites of
further interest:
To see art images in a larger size and with more detail go to:
Mark Harden's "The Artchive"
Art
History - Dr. Christopher Witcombe
CGFA - A Virtual Art Museum
Artcyclopedia
Web
Gallery of Art
Tigertail
Virtual Museum
Web
Museum
Other links of
interest:
Internet Medieval
Sourcebook
Giorgio
Vasari,
Lives of the Artists, selections
Jacob
Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy
Internet Modern
History Sourcebook
Final
Declaration of Jan Hus
A General Study of the Plague in England 1539-1640
ORB:
Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
Florence Art Guide
Virtual
Renaissance: A Journey Through Time
Renaissance
(Learner.org from Annenberg CPB)
WebMuseum:
La Renaissance
Renaissance,
The Elizabethan World
NM's
Creative Impulse.. Renaissance
Life
in Elizabethan England: A Compendium of Common Knowledge
The Sistine
Chapel (or in Italian, Cappella Sistina) (You can select the various scenes.)
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Go
to Advanced Placement European History Title page.
Go to Unit 2.
Go to A. P. European History Course Description page.
Class
rules and regulations
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Go to IB/AP Stress page.
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Music: "Pastime With Good
Company", Written by the English King, Henry VIII, reigned 1509-1547, as
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