Chapter 12 - Recovery and Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance

Palaeologus dynasty

Although the ________ had tried to reestablish Byzantine power in the Balkans after the overthrow of the Latin empire, the threat from the Turks finally doomed the long- lasting empire.

Jacob Burckhardt

The Swiss historian and art critic ________ created the modern concept of the Renaissance in his celebrated book The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy, published in 1860.

Italy

In ________ and France, the chief form of secular music was the madrigal.

Dufay

________ also composed a number of secular songs, an important reminder that during the Renaissance, music ceased to be used chiefly in the service of God and moved into the secular world of courts and cities.

Raphael

________ was commissioned to do paintings, and the construction of Saint Peters was accelerated as Rome became the literary and artistic center of the Renaissance.

thirteenth century

Since the ________, Russia had been under the domination of the Mongols.

Humanists

________ de- emphasized divine intervention in favor of human motives, stressing political forces or the role of individuals in history.

Philip

________ of Burgundy, the son of Maximilians marriage to Mary, was married to Joanna, the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella.

Venetian diplomat

A(n) ________ attempted to define an ambassadors function in a treatise written at the end of the fifteenth century.

Holy Roman Empire

Printing presses were established throughout the ________ in the 1460s and within ten years had spread to both western and eastern Europe.

modern diplomatic system

The ________ was a product of the Italian Renaissance.

Black Death

Above all, the Renaissance was an age of recovery from the calamitous fourteenth century, a time for the slow process of recuperating from the effects of the ________, political disorder, and economic recession.

art of printing

The ________ made an immediate impact on European intellectual life and thought.

twelfth century

Printing from hand- carved wooden blocks had been done in the West since the ________ and in China even before that.

Renaissance madrigal

The ________ was a poem set to music, and it originated in the fourteenth- century Italian courts.

historical literature

Medieval ________ often portrayed historical events as being caused by Gods active involvement in human affairs.

Humanist historians

________ reduced or eliminated the role of miracles in historical interpretation, not because they were anti- Christian but because they took a new approach to sources.

Renaissance humanism

________ was an intellectual movement based on the study of the Classical literary works of Greece and Rome.

Italy

In ________, the human form became the primary vehicle of expression as Italian artists sought to master the technical skills that allowed them to portray humans in realistic set- tings.

Dufay

Born in northern France, ________ lived for a few years in Italy and was thus well suited to combine the late medieval style of France with the early Renaissance style of Italy.

Humanism

________ had a strong impact on the writing of history.

Italy

He (Jacob Burckhardt) portrayed ________ in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries as the birthplace of the modern world and saw the revival of antiquity, the ‘ ‘ perfecting of the individual, and secularism as its distinguishing features.