Rennaisance

learning goals
I know what the Renaissance was
I know the political background
I knnow how Thomas More fits in that story
I know what a utopia is.
I know the basic story of Utopia. 
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learning goals
I know what the Renaissance was
I know the political background
I knnow how Thomas More fits in that story
I know what a utopia is.
I know the basic story of Utopia. 

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expectations during literature hours
  • you read the literature before the deadlines
  • you participate during the discussions
  • you take notes during the lessons

lessons will be more lecture style, so you are also expected to be silent for longer.

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What do you know about the renaissance?

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scientific experiments
art and painting 
literature 
humanism
Copernicus
John Milton
Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Galileo Galilei
Columbus
Erasmus 
Thomas Moore
Michelangelo
Leonardo 
Da Vinci

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Renaissance
  • Renaissance = ‘rebirth’ 
  • renewed interest in the cultures of ancient Greece and Rome
  •  examples in art, literature and thought (humanism) 
  • Theocentric (God) -> Anthropocentric (Mankind)
  • Memento Mori -> Carpe Diem
  •  Italy: 14th century
  • England: 16th century


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Renaissance
  • Feeling of optimism
- Prospering economy (Queen Elizabeth I) 
- Growth of population
 - Progress in field of science
 - Growing literary 



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Humanism
  • School of philosophy / World-vision
  • Optimistic, human-oriented and forward-looking view of life
  • Individualistic
  • ad fontes: to the sources

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Humanists believed that it was possible to create an ideal society on earth. 

Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man

Consequences 
  • Curiosity about the nature of the world (Copernicus)
  • Exploration (Columbus - 1492)
  • Cultural revival -> Art (Da Vinci and Michelangelo)
  • -> Literature (Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton)

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Scientific experimentation
Copernicus proved that the earth revolved around the sun. Galileo Galilei discovered the telescope and much more

discovered America in 1492

Da Vinci and Michelangelo - drew upon the achievements of classical antiquity. Put your name to your work. 

England mainly in literature
the Reformation
Individualism, look back at the original source (bible), invention of printing press
> Question Organisation of the church

1517 - Martin Luther - 95 theses

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But this was not the only reason why England broke free of the Roman church. It was as much political s it was cultural. 
Henry VIII

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What would you do if the pope wouldnt let you divorce your wife?
A
Get multiple wifes at the same time
B
Start your own church without a pope
C
Try for another baby with your current wife
D
Become a muslim

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The six wives of Henry VIII

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Sir Thomas More 
1478-1535

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Sir Thomas More 
  • Son of a famous lawyer
  • He became a brilliant lawyer
  • Was friends with Erasmus 
  • human dignity and tolerance fused with Christian principles
  • Imprisoned and eventually beheaded by Henry VIII for taking the side of the Pope 
  • Best known work is Utopia 
  • criticise contemporary society

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Utopia

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  • .....
  • .....
  • Eutopia
  • Topos = place
  • Eu = good
  • “the perfect society” →
  • ....
  • ....
  • Outopia
  • Topos = place
  • Ou = not
  • “does not exist”/“nowhere”
A Meaningful pun

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Recognizable
A utopia cannot be completely different from our society, it must resemble it, and appear to be a progression from or alternative version of our current society.

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Open your Alquin on page 10

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Read the geography of Utopia
What are the advantages and disadvantages of the system More describes here?

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Read Their silver and gold
  • Utopians attach little value to precious metals, why?

  • Why should iron be worth more than gold and silver?

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Make the questions on page 13

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Advantages: a sort of compulsory community service, of the kind that is often suggested nowadays.
Society based on reason. With ideas such as free education, all roles open to everyone, a classless
society and religious tolerance, More was way ahead of his time.

Disadvantages: very communist and strictly organised. There is no room for individuality. You have
no say in where you are sent. Also, you cannot leave the island; you have to stay there. There is no
recreation: no social drinking, no theatre or such like. It all reflects More’s way of life, which consists
only of eating, working and sleeping.

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More suggested that slaves were needed to do the jobs that no one else could or otherwise would do, such as slaughtering livestock

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More was a deeply religious man and a devout Catholic. He regarded non-believers or people with religious doubts as unreliable. When Marx later took the first steps towards a communist society, all religion was banned.

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More was against private ownership, since he felt it was the root of all social evils. Ironically, he was himself very rich.
However, he had a lot of sympathy for people at the lower levels of society, who had to deal with the impact of Henry’s policies.

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Iron is of practical value. It is a hard metal that you can use to make tools and many other useful objects. Gold and silver are soft metals; they are merely decorative because of their shiny
appearance. People value gold and silver because they are rare, but one can argue that they are only valuable because people choose to value them; they have no inherent value.

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The availability of clean air and water is nowadays a topical issue, with all the environmental pollution and the attempts to clean up the world around us.

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Gold and silver are used in Utopia for chamber pots (vessels into which people relieved themselves in the night) – i.e. for the ‘lowest’ imaginable purpose. By creating an image of slaves and criminals in gold and silver chains, and wearing crowns as a mark of shame, More is associating the wearers of
gold chains and crowns in his own society with crime and vilification.

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Shakespeare

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