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| What is chivalry? |
Emphasized the protection of the weak, idealized women, and celebrated the role of the wandering knight, who traveled from place to place performing good deeds.
-Medieval books tended to contain melodramatic, fantastical stories about encounters with cruel giants, rescueing of princesses |
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| Explain Satire |
Literary device in which human shortcomings are held to ridicule and sometimes with an intent to bring about improvement. |
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Who was responsible for the printing press?
What happened as a result of the printing press? |
Johann Gutenberg and Johan Fust and Peter Schoffer.
-First book = Bible
- Printed books = cheaper so more knowledge, easier to produce, new ideas. |
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plumerias Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:53:13 GMT |
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| Cervantes - What was one of his best known works? |
Don Quixote.
A tale that mocks romantic notions of medieval chivalry.
Don Quixote is a foolish but idealistic knight, and Sancho Panza his faithful servant.
-He thinks hes a knight in fantasy land. |
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plumerias Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:51:10 GMT |
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| Who was Rabelais? |
A monk, physician, Greek scholar, and author.
- Wrote Gargantua and Pantagruel, writes about two gentle giants.
-Uses characters to offer opinions on religion, education, and other serious subjects. |
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| What does Utopian mean today? |
Any ideal society |
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Thomas More - What did he write?
What was it about? |
He wrote Utopia, an ideal society in which men and women live in peace and harmony.
-All educated, justice is used to end crime rather than to eliminate the criminal. |
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| Who was Erasmus? What did he call for the Bible to do? |
- Dutch Priest and Humanist
- Used knowledge of classical language to produce new Greek edition of the New Testament
- Called for translation of the Bible into the vernacular or everyday language of ordinary people.
-Disturbed by corruption of the Church and called for reformation
-Wrote the Praise of Folly |
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plumerias Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:37:59 GMT |
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Who are the 4 Flemish painters?
Explain their techniques. |
-Jan and Hubert van Eyck - Townspeople as well as religious scenes.
-Developed oil paint
- Pieter Bruegel - Peasant life
Peter Paul Rubens - Blended realistic tradition of Flemish painters with classical themes and artistic freedom of the Italian Renaissance |
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| What is engraving? |
When an artist etches a design on a metal plate with acid.
They use it to make prints. |
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| Who was a "German Leonardo"? |
-Albrecht Durer
-Employed method of paintings and engravings.
-Helped spread Italian Renaissance in his homeland |
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