Michelangelo

Johannes Gutenberg

Italian Renaissance Ninja Painters

The Renaissance

Medicis: The Birth of a Dynasty

Renaissance Lecture Notes

Leonardo da Vinci

Renaissance Man

The Renaissance

Magna Carta

The Bubonic Plague

Medieval Towns

Questions:

1.     How did medieval towns make their living?

2.     Which groups of people controlled all of trade (buying & selling) in medieval town?

3.     What was the name given to a boy who was learning a trade in a medieval town?

4.     What did a journeyman have to make before he could become a member of a guild?

5.     What did a journeyman become when he joined a guild?

6.     Why did serfs run away from their villages to live in medieval towns?

Answers: the guilds, a master craftsman, an apprentice, a masterpiece trade, to become free, a masterpiece

Why was fire such a problem for medieval towns? (Explain why there were a lot of fires and why they caused so much damage).

Monks, Nuns, and Mendicants

• Monks and nuns took vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.  They spent their lives in work, study, and prayer, living in separate communities called monasteries and convents.
• Friars did not shut themselves off from the rest of the world.  They traveled among ordinary people to preach.