AP Euro MA/Renaissance

What caused the sanitation and housing issues in cities?

• People died and others just left them to rot in streets or in houses
• An increase in the population of cities
• The canals were blocked so water became stationary and thus developed mold and other filth
• Small black dogs peed everywhere

People began to look at the poor as lazy so they...

• Tried to pass laws limiting prostitution and beggars

• Enrolled them on classes with motivational speakers

• Decided to feed them on their own

• Created food banks and homeless shelters for them

What is "La Querelle des Femmes"?

• The debate about women overall roles in school and the public and private workspace
• The spanish book about why women are witches and should be burned
• The book by Mary Woolstonecraft advocating for womens equality and voting rights

Humanism praised mankind as 

• "heroic and divine"
• "Poor and unworthy
• "a hot mess"

(Renaissance) The worldview of European intellectuals shifted from one based on ecclesiastical and classical authority to one based primarily on...

• inquiry and observation
• feelings of torture and lack of self worth
• One based on worshiping leaders

What did Mirandola say?

• The end justifies the means
• Individual was an independent and autonomous being with moral choices
• Humans are nasty, broodish, and short

Humanist shifted focus of education away from theology toward...

• The ideas of polytheism 
• The belief in the church as the only viable source of information
•  the study of the classical texts

The artist had to be able to reveal the emotions and passions of the figures he depicted
What was the painter and sculptor Alberti known for? 

• Portraying the human face with emotion
• Locking himself in a soundproof room in Paris for two years
• Breaking away from the Catholic Church
• Being a hot mess

What did Renaissance artists have to do in order to make their scenes look realistic?

• They had to lack depth
• The artist must be enrolled in the bauhaus school
• The artist had to adhere to common standards as set up by the church
• The artist had to be able to reveal the emotions and passions of the figures he depicted

Civic Humanism: Application of the classics to... 

• individuals and government
• the church 
• The common business world