Understanding Western Society
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EUROPEAN SOCIETY IN THE AGE OF THE RENAISSANCE
1350–1550
>What new ways of thinking and new forms of cultural expression were developed during the Renaissance? Chapter 12 examines the emergence of a new culture in southern Europe. The fourteenth century witnessed remarkable changes in Italian intellectual, artistic, and cultural life. Artists and writers thought that they were living in a new golden age, but not until the sixteenth century was this change given the label we use today — the Renaissance, derived from the French word for “rebirth.” That word was first used by art historian Giorgio Vasari (1511–
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ca. 1350 | 1478 |
– Petrarch develops ideas of humanism | – Establishment of the Inquisition in Spain |
1434– |
1492 |
– Medici family in power in Florence | – Spain conquers Granada, ending reconquista; practicing Jews expelled from Spain |
1440s | 1494 |
– Invention of movable metal type | – Invasion of Italy by Charles VIII of France |
1447– |
1508– |
– Sforza family in power in Milan | – Michelangelo paints ceiling of Sistine Chapel |
1455– |
1513 |
– Wars of the Roses in England | – Machiavelli writes The Prince |
1469 | 1563 |
– Marriage of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon | – Establishment of first formal academy for artistic training in Florence |
1477 | |
– Louis XI conquers Burgundy |