Renaissance Lives By Theodore K. Rabb
Renaissance Lives: Portraits of an Age By Theodore K. Rabb
The thesis of Renaissance lives is to show the reader a little bit of the Renaissance period. Rabb talks about 15 different people from the Renaissance period. He talks about astrologers to mothers and artists.
Jan Hus
Jan Hus was born in Prague was a religious thinker and reformer. He initiated a religious movement based on the ideas of John Wycliff His followers became known as Hussites. Hus was a dissenter in that time it was frowned upon and dissenters where usually excommunicated because they don't want him spreading around his ideas. The Catholic Church did not condone such uprisings, and Hus was excommunicated in 1411, condemned by the Council of Constance, and burned at the stake. H
Teresa of Avila …show more content…
Born in Avila, Spain, St.
Teresa was the daughter of a Toledo merchant and his wife, who died when Teresa was 15. She was one of ten children. After this event, Teresa was entrusted to the care of the Augustinian nuns. After reading the letters of St. Jerome, Teresa resolved to enter a religious life. She joined the Carmelite Order. She spent a number of relatively average years in the convent, punctuated by a severe illness that left her legs paralyzed for three years, but then experienced a vision of "the sorely wounded Christ" that changed her life forever. St. Teresa left to posterity many new convents, which she continued founding up to the year of her death. She also left a significant legacy of writings, which represent important benchmarks in the history of Christian
mysticism.
Galileo Galilee
Galileo Galilei was a Tuscan astronomer, philosopher, and physicist who is closely associated with the scientific revolution. He attended the University of Pisa, but was forced to stop his study there for financial reasons. He got a job working their teaching mathematics. Soon after, he moved to the University of Padua, and worked there too. During this time he explored science and made many discoveries. He made the telescope better, followed copernicanism, and the first law of motion. He had a conflict with the Roman Catholic Church.
Wallenstein
Wallenstein was born into minor nobility in Bohemia. He was taught at Jesuit College. He continued his education at the university of Bologna and Padua.
He then joined the Hungarian army. After he left the army he returned to Bohemia, and soon married a rich elderly widow whose estates in Moravia he inherited after her death in 1614. He soon used his wealth to win command of two hundred horses for Archduke Ferdinand of Syria for his war with Venice.
Glukel of Hameln
Gluckel of Hameln was a Jewish businesswoman and diarist. Gluckel lived in the town of Hamelin, where her husband was a businessman. He was involved in his business during his lifetime. When he died in 1689, she took over the business, making trade with markets as far as Amsterdam, Leipzig, Berlin, Vienna, Metz and Paris. She remarried, to a banker from Metz in Lorraine, and relocated there. Two years later, her husband failed financially, losing not only his own fortune but hers as well. He died in 1712, leaving her a widow for a second time. Gluckel had 12 children.
The thesis of Renaissance lives is to show the reader a little bit of the Renaissance period. Rabb talks about 15 different people from the Renaissance period. He talks about astrologers to mothers and artists.
Jan Hus
Jan Hus was born in Prague was a religious thinker and reformer. He initiated a religious movement based on the ideas of John Wycliff His followers became known as Hussites. Hus was a dissenter in that time it was frowned upon and dissenters where usually excommunicated because they don't want him spreading around his ideas. The Catholic Church did not condone such uprisings, and Hus was excommunicated in 1411, condemned by the Council of Constance, and burned at the stake. H
Teresa of Avila …show more content…
Born in Avila, Spain, St.
Teresa was the daughter of a Toledo merchant and his wife, who died when Teresa was 15. She was one of ten children. After this event, Teresa was entrusted to the care of the Augustinian nuns. After reading the letters of St. Jerome, Teresa resolved to enter a religious life. She joined the Carmelite Order. She spent a number of relatively average years in the convent, punctuated by a severe illness that left her legs paralyzed for three years, but then experienced a vision of "the sorely wounded Christ" that changed her life forever. St. Teresa left to posterity many new convents, which she continued founding up to the year of her death. She also left a significant legacy of writings, which represent important benchmarks in the history of Christian
mysticism.
Galileo Galilee
Galileo Galilei was a Tuscan astronomer, philosopher, and physicist who is closely associated with the scientific revolution. He attended the University of Pisa, but was forced to stop his study there for financial reasons. He got a job working their teaching mathematics. Soon after, he moved to the University of Padua, and worked there too. During this time he explored science and made many discoveries. He made the telescope better, followed copernicanism, and the first law of motion. He had a conflict with the Roman Catholic Church.
Wallenstein
Wallenstein was born into minor nobility in Bohemia. He was taught at Jesuit College. He continued his education at the university of Bologna and Padua.
He then joined the Hungarian army. After he left the army he returned to Bohemia, and soon married a rich elderly widow whose estates in Moravia he inherited after her death in 1614. He soon used his wealth to win command of two hundred horses for Archduke Ferdinand of Syria for his war with Venice.
Glukel of Hameln
Gluckel of Hameln was a Jewish businesswoman and diarist. Gluckel lived in the town of Hamelin, where her husband was a businessman. He was involved in his business during his lifetime. When he died in 1689, she took over the business, making trade with markets as far as Amsterdam, Leipzig, Berlin, Vienna, Metz and Paris. She remarried, to a banker from Metz in Lorraine, and relocated there. Two years later, her husband failed financially, losing not only his own fortune but hers as well. He died in 1712, leaving her a widow for a second time. Gluckel had 12 children.