World Lit: 1/20/20 – 1/24/20

Unit 3 (Unit 6 in textbook): Rebirth and Exploration: The Renaissance and Rationalism: 1300-1800

  • Historical Background
    • The Renaissance in Western Europe
    • Status and Security
    • Kings Up, Nobles Down
    • Humanism: Out of the “Dark” Ages
    • The Reformation: From Debate to Bloodshed
    • The Globe Explored, the Earth Displaced
    • The Age of Rationalism: From Lore to Law
    • Rationalism and Nature: Mud Baths and Artful Foliage
    • Rationalism and Science: Falling Apples and Orbiting Planets
    • The Industrial Revolution: Steam Flexes Its Muscles
    • Rationalism and Politics: Experiment and Explosion
    • The Bubonic Plague
      • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kScxc9DPrnY
  • Literature 
    • Renaissance Literature: A Branch of Rhetoric

*Class notes attached to class page*