COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

COMPARATIVE QUESTIONS

Document Links:

Document 13-1: The Black Death

Document 13-2: Thomas Walsingham, Peasant Rebels in London

Document 13-3: Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner’s Prologue

Document 13-4: Jan Hus, Letters

Document 13-5: Giovanni Rucellai and Leonardo Bruni, Florence in the Quattrocento

Document 13-6: Alessandra, Letters from a Widow, and Matriarch of a Great Family

  1. What connections can you draw between the plague and the peasant rebellions that swept over Europe during the decades after 1347?

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    What connections can you draw between the plague and the peasant rebellions that swept over Europe during the decades after 1347?
  2. What do Hus’s and Chaucer’s views of the church have in common? What does this suggest about the effects of the Great Schism and perceived abuses within the church on Europeans’ spiritual life?

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    What do Hus’s and Chaucer’s views of the church have in common? What does this suggest about the effects of the Great Schism and perceived abuses within the church on Europeans’ spiritual life?
  3. Compare the portraits of Florentine life and politics painted in Documents 5 and 6. What similarities and differences do you see? What does this suggest about the limitations of Renaissance ideals?

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    Compare the portraits of Florentine life and politics painted in Documents 5 and 6. What similarities and differences do you see? What does this suggest about the limitations of Renaissance ideals?
  4. One of historian Jacob Burckhardt’s chapters in The Civilization of the Renaissance is entitled “The Discovery of Man and the World.” What is “new” about the Renaissance? What could be considered a continuation of medieval ideas?

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    One of historian Jacob Burckhardt’s chapters in The Civilization of the Renaissance is entitled “The Discovery of Man and the World.” What is “new” about the Renaissance? What could be considered a continuation of medieval ideas?