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Chap12 WesternCiv
Study Questions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Renaissance Humanism emphasized all of the following EXCEPT | rejecting religious rituals, institutions, and beliefs |
| Petrarch felt that the ultimate importance of studying the ancients was that it would enable people to | imitate them, and thereby become more virtuous. |
| Boccaccio's masterpiece, The Decameron, is notable because | it portrayed ordinary characters and dealt frankly with the subject of sex, creating new aims in Western literature. |
| As Humanism spread, it had an impact in the form of all of the following EXCEPT | a political philosophy that caused the decline of despotism and rise of democracy. |
| The Neoplatonists changed Humanism by emphasizing all of the following EXCEPT | the irreconcilability of divergent truths. |
| Masaccio, Donatello, and Brunelleschi found inspiration for their works in the city of | Rome |
| The High Renaissance | brought to a climax the artistic trends begun a century before. |
| Raphael was a master of perspective. Which of the four masters of High Renaissance art was Europe's most sought-after portraitist? | Titian |
| How did people view earlier artists such as Masaccio differently than Leonardo and other High Renaissance artists? | Earlier artists were essentially seen as craftsmen, whereas later artists were viewed as greatly prized members of society, with high status. |
| Northern culture differed from Italian because | the percentage of townspeople was far lower in the North. |
| Around 1500, northern Europe contained the chief center of | music |
| The chief change in late medieval Scholasticism was | a focus on the way we describe things rather than on the reality of things |
| Marsilius of Padua based his critique of Church power on | the nominalist position that the Church is made up of the sum of its parts, and thus the true power lies among its members |
| The popes responded to their financial problems with all of the following measures EXCEPT | drastically reducing papal expenses by adopting a cult of virtuous poverty |
| By the end of the Great Schism, | everyone in Europe had been excommunicated |
| What was the goal of the conciliarists? | They wanted a new constitution that would confirm the supremacy of a general council, which would limit the pope's authority |
| Late medieval mysticism emphasized | the interior experience of communion with God |
| Lay piety involved all of the following EXCEPT | that the Church's suppression of transubstantiation was not valid. |
| Ultimately the Hussites | were allowed to establish a special church, but further demands for reform were rejected |
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