Renaissance Unit readings 12.1 (first page) and 12.2 are on Moodle.
-Arab influence on the Renaissance
-Greek impact: education, individuality
-Roman impact: art, politics and civic duty
-Renaissance Man
-purpose of classical education
-knowledge versus skills
-define freedom
-Key Characteristics of the Renaissance
-Humanism
-Petrarch
-Christian Humanism
-Erasmus
-Protestant Reformation
-Hinduism and Buddhism
-Martin Luther
-1517
-95 Theses
-Indulgences
-justification by faith
-Dante
-vernacular
-The Divine Comedy
-The printing press
-Leonardo da Vinci
-Michelangelo
-Renaissance Art Characteristics
-Modern Art Characteristics
-modernism
-existentialism