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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
Explain Satire
Literary device in which human shortcomings are held to ridicule and sometimes with an intent to bring about improvement.
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.
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.
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.
What does Utopian mean today?
Any ideal society
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.
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
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
What is engraving?
When an artist etches a design on a metal plate with acid.
They use it to make prints.
Who was a "German Leonardo"?
-Albrecht Durer
-Employed method of paintings and engravings.
-Helped spread Italian Renaissance in his homeland
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