HIST 1010 Study Guide - Final Guide: Western Schism, Montesquieu, Robert Filmer
2 Dec 2012
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Objective: to introduce history as a forensic discipline: differentiating between fact and interpretation, using facts as evidence: grimshaw"s interpretation of columbus, evaluating a historical hypothesis: gavin menzie"s 1421, the collaborative research assignment. Objective: to locate the renaissance in the crisis" of the late middle ages: definitions of renaissance, influence of avignon papacy (1309-1377) and papal schism (1378-1415) on humanist. Scholarship: increased political competition from hundred years war and its influence on artistic patronage, the arrival of black death and impact on art and literature. Objective: to look at underlying conditions paving the way for the reformation: the great man" theory of history, political geography of the holy roman empire, the impact of the printing press, advent of christian humanism. Objective: to examine the counter-reformation as both an independent and a reactive movement in the 16th century: renovatio and reformation, protestantism and political fragmentation, the council of trent (1545-7; 1551-2; 1562-3, the jesuits, counter reformation overseas.
