Age of the Renaissance: HY 313

Jakob Burckhardt
Jules Michelet
Twelfth-century Renaissance
Wallace K. Ferguson
Charles Homer Haskins
Rampant individualism
'genius' of the Italian people
Urbanization

Commercial Revolution
Capitalism
Commercialized land
Labor as commodity
Expansion of area of production
a bi-polar worldmarket or world system
Multiple polities
the "transparent" marketplace (with market-exchange economy)
Agrarian Crisis
Golden age of the guilds
Second serfdom
Fernand Braudel on long-distance trade
Long-distance merchant
"Before the gates"
Commenda
Calculated risk
Luca Pacioli
Summa de arithematica...(1449)
Maritime insurance

Modes of labor
State system
Venetian Arsenal
Putting-out system

Factory system

Florence

Guelf & Ghibelline conflict

Factors
Medieval master guildsman
Journeyman
Apprentice
Arti maggiori (medi & minori)
Permanent journeyman
Arte della lana after 1300

Social adjustments

Three estates
Ordo clericorum(clerus)
Ordo militium
Ordo peditium
Milites
Pedites
Popolo grasso
popolo
popolo minuto
Grandi
Contado
Distretto
Guelf versus Ghibelline
Podesta
Capitano del popolo
Vicar of the Empire
Giangaleazzo Visconti
Commune versus republic
participatory versus representative government

Political developments

Territorial State & Theory

the Manor
Feudalism
Personal military contract
Homage
Fief
lords versus vassals
The "state"
imperium or the dominus mundi
princeps
Roman Law
Azo
John of Salisbury
Salisbury's imperator in regnum
William of Occam
Marsiglio of Padua
Bartolus of Saxoferrato
de facto power
de facto versus de jure
Bartolus's sibi princeps
natio versus patria

Italian states

Grandi
Concilio grande
credenza
The coup of 1259
Della Torre family
consuls
Ottone Visconti
Giangaleazzo Visconti
Francesco Sforza
Golden Ambrosian Republic
Ludovico il Moro

Great Council and Senate of Venice
Collegio
Doge
Dieci
Bloodless coup of 1297
Defeat of Genoa in 1380
Great Galleys of Venice
Flanders Fleet

The podere
Mezzadria system
The Signoria of Florence
Committee of Priors and Priorate
Twelve buonuomini
Sixteen gonfolonieri
Corso Donati
Dante Alighieri
White Guelfs
lanaiuolo & sottoposto
Ciompi revolt and regime
Pratica
Cosimo de Medici
Albizzi's loss of a war to Lucca
Ordinances of Justice
Peace of Lodi (1454)

Northern states

Catalonia & Leon
Castile-Aragon
Ferdinand & Isabella
Audiencia & Cancellería
The Ordenamiento
Alfonzo Diaz de Montalvo
The Reconquista
Granada
Mesta
Concordata
Spanish Inquisition
Publicas, Medias, Secretas
Tomas de Torquemado
Alcabala
Tercias reales

Philip the Fair (d. 1314)
Boniface VIII
Anagni Tragedy
Curia regis
Hotel du Roi
Conseil du Roi
Parlement of Paris
Estates General
Chambre de Comptes
Cavaliers of the King
Prévôts
Baillis
Sénéchaux
Charles VII (le victorieux ; 1422-1461)
Taille
Gabelle
Ordinance of 1439
Joan of Arc
Conciliarism
Council of Constance
Council of Basel
Pragmatic sanction of Bourges
Nicholas V (1447-1458)
Francis I
The Concordat of 1516

Religion & the Church

Gelasianism
Church-state
Christendom
Sacraments
Universities
Scholasticism
Aristotelianism
Canon law
Ecclesiastical courts
Papal Revolution or Gregorian Reforms
Innocent III (1198-1216)
Plenitudo potestatis
Boniface VIII (1294-1303)
Asculta fili (1301)
Unam sanctam (1302)
Anagni tragedy
John XXII (1316-1334)
Guillaume de Nogaret
Annates
Taithe
Purveyance
Avignon
Babylonian Captivity of the Church
Council of Basel
Council of Constance
Conciliarism
On the King and Papacy (1303)
Egidio Colonna

Clement V (1305-1316)
John XIII (1316-34)
Louis the Bavarian (1314-1347)
Gregory XI (1371-1378)
The Great Schism, 1378-1417
Lay Piety Movement
Mysticism
Meister Eckhart (1260-1327)
Neo-Platonism
Eckhart's "apex of the soul"
Heinrich Suso (1295-1366)
Johann Tauler (1300-1361)
Theologia Germanica
Jan Ruysbroeck (1293-1381)
Gerard Groote (1340-1384)
Brethren of the Common Life
Devotio moderna
Florentius Radewijns
Augustinian Canons Regular at Windesheim
Thomas à Kempis
The Imitation of Christ

Intellectual Ferment & Struggle: Scholasticism

Scholasticism
Augustine of Hippo (353-430)
Jean Roscellinus (b 1050)
Nominalism
Realism
Thomism
Realism versus nominalism
Summary of Theology (1259)
a priori knowledge
anamnesis
Thomas's "two sources of knowledge"
William of Ockham (1285-1347)
Literal & Spiritual readings of texts
Tropological & Typological interpretations
De virtute sermonis versus usus or sensus
Rage over Aristotle
Syllogisms
Aristotelian logic
The university
The four faculties of the university
Lectura
Disputatio

Humanism per se:

Renaissance Humanism
Pre-1450 & post-1450 Humanism
Italian rhetorical movement of twefth & thirteenth centuries
dictator or dictation taker
notai or notary
Preoccupation with the classics
Philology
Internal Criticism
External Criticism
Historical perspective
Well-rounded person (l'uomo universale)
Philosophy of the Civil Society (classical Liberalism)
Civic patriotism (Courtier patriotism)
Disrespect for medieval Scholasticism
They were Christians but...."
Francesco Petrarca
Familiar Letters
Vernacular or volgare

Growth of Vernacular Literature:

The terms for art and humanist writers are in the files Terms for Art and Terms for Humanist Writers, respectively.