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Western Civilization I to 1500
: The Renaissance and the Transformation of the Western World
Editor in Chief:
Joseph T. Stuart, University of Mary
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1. Archaic and Early Classical Greece
2. Late Classical Greece and the Hellenistic Age
3. Roman Republic
4. Roman Empire
5. Rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire
6. The Fall of Rome and the European Peoples
7. The Byzantine Empire and the Rise of Islam
8. The Church and the Conversion of the European Peoples
9. Age of Charlemagne
10. Feudal Europe and the “Dark Age”
11. Church Reform in the Eleventh Century and the Medieval Papacy
12. International Relations
13. Medieval Institutions
14. The Waning of the Middle Ages
15. The Renaissance and the Transformation of the Western World
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Textbook Articles
Petrarch: Letter to Lapo de Castiglionchio (ca. 1351)
Petrarch: Letter to Francesco Nelli (1360)
Petrus Paulus Vergerius: “Concerning Liberal Studies” (ca. 1400)
Leon Alberti: On Painting (1435)
Vespasiano da Bisticci: Portrait of Cosimo de’ Medici (ca. 1460)
Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince (1513)
Giorgio Vasari: “Leonardo da Vinci, Florentine Painter and Sculptor” (1550)
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Oration on the Dignity of Man (1486)
Henricus Institoris and Jacobus Sprenger: Malleus maleficarum (1486)
The Croyland Chronicle: Battle of Bosworth Field (1486)
Alhambra Decree (1492)
Desiderius Erasmus: The Praise of Folly (1509)
Martin Luther: Ninety-five Theses (1517)
John Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion (1536)
Short-answer Questions: Western Civilization I, Unit 15
Key Terms: Western Civilization I, Unit 15
Key Concepts: Western Civilization I, Unit 15
Key Arguments: Western Civilization I, Unit 15
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The Renaissance and the Transformation of the the Western World
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Renaissance Men and Women
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Christian Humanism
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Medieval and Renaissance Art and Architecture
