HIS 1120 Lecture 2: The Renaissance, Part 1
19 Jan 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Introduction: europe circa 1500: politically fragmented, made up of small states, very different than today. 1500 independent city states, kingdoms (royals), etc. 300 in southwest germany alone: conflicts generated from competing monarchs and other powers, europe prominently christian, two popes (one in france, other in rome (central)) Divided east vs. west (allegiance to rome vs. avignon: church language in west is latin (lingua franca in rome) Most people spoke regional language, wrote latin. Beginnings of modern english in 1400: eastern europe user church slavonic languages, no unity of christendom, world unknown, ptolemy: europe, asia, northern africa and india. No knowledge of south africa or the americas: demographics: drastic size change, bubonic plague (mid 1300s) population decreased by >33% 80 to 50 million in about 30 years. 1500: 70 million people in europe, less competition, end of feudalism: most people lived in france: 16 million) Low countries (2 million, increased concentration of people)
