DBQ Middle Ages

DBQ Middle Ages

1) There was great rebirth of literature and the art after a thousand of cultural sterility. Writers from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries related themselves to the Italian writers of the renaissance. These writes were apart of the middle ages. Also they turned for inspiration to the civilization of the Roman and Greek antiquity.

2) The use of this one term to refer to an age indicates the belief that all diverse phenomena at that age intellectual, artistic, religious, even economic and political had enough traits in common to be included under one heading. Renaissance Italy did represent a distinctive epoch in history of civilization but he was aware of the importance of middle ages. For him, the Italian of the renaissance was “ The first born among the sons of modern Europe.” This is different view than those before him. The new man was above all an individual no longer, as in Middle Ages, identified by his membership in same corporate group.

3) The modern culture and the humanist began around the year 1000 A.D, yes there was a renaissance at this time. Remains of Renaissance sculptures have been seen by few, and in those days unless you saw the painting than you didn’t know what they actually looked like. He says from his point of view, “And actually the medieval scholars of western Europe were acquainted with most of the Latin authors familiar to us…”

4) Man should be concerned with mortal thinks, the here and now. What can be scene and felt rather than the unseen and the unknown of heaven. This was different from the interests of medieval man. The late medieval world was a dark place full of death, starvation, and famine. They saw this as a punishment from God and as a result medieval men viewed the world as painful and difficult to exist in, and that man was a sinful and terrible creature. They rejected the world and looked forward to a better life in heaven.

5) The rebirth of protestant church. He wanted to find a compromise that would help restore Christian unity and make the church more mindful of its obligations and duties to the faithful. He encouraged a new generation of priests that were dedicated to serving the needs of the people rather that the accumulation of power, wealth, and personal prestige.

6) DaVinci studied the movement of muscles and how veins were arranged. He was deeply interested in how things worked. He epitomized the renaissance humanist ideals. He was concerned with the laws of science and nature.

7) Keplers theories were proven based on mathematical laws. Eventually this revolution in scientific thinking developed into a new approach called the scientific method. This approach was not consistent to the medieval view. During the middle ages most believed the earth was unmoving and the moon, sun, and planets all moved perfectly circular paths around the earth. Their ideas were based more on common sense and religion and what the bible said rather than mathematical laws.

8) The chart shows me that between the 12th and 13th centuries many universities were founded in Italy, Spain, and Portugal. During the 14th century there were more universities found in Italy, France, Germany, Bohemia, and the low countries. Finally in the 15th century there were a lot of universities found in France, Great Britain, Spain, and Portugal. This tells me about the middle ages that there were very many different schools that were founded so many people must have been very well educated.