Make Connections

Analyze the larger developments and continuities within and across chapters.

  1. Question

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    The word Renaissance, invented to describe the cultural flowering in Italy that began in the fifteenth century, has often been used for other periods of advance in learning and the arts, such as the “Carolingian Renaissance” that you read about in Chapter 8. Can you think of other, more recent “Renaissances” or ways the term is used today?
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    The “debate about women” was not simply a European phenomenon, as educated men (and occasionally a few educated women) in many cultures discussed women’s nature and character. How would you compare ideas about women in classical Islamic society (Chapter 9), Song China (Chapter 13), Heian Japan (Chapter 13), Renaissance Italy, and Protestant Germany? How were these ideas reflected (or not reflected) in women’s actual lives?
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    Martin Luther is always on every list of the one hundred most influential people of all time. Should he be? Why or why not? Who else from this chapter should be on such a list, and why?