Middle Ages MC

How would you categorize John Hobson's and Jerry Brotton's claim of the European Renaissance?

All of the above (as a rejection of the uniqueness of this European phenomenon, similar to John Green's, as more global and less Eurocentric)

Which of the following developed in Renaissance Italy in response to the views expressed in the above passage?

Educational opportunities for upper-class women increased while their social status decreased

Which of the following was most influenced by the trends discussed in the passage?

Erasmus

The "resuscitation of antiquity" mentioned in the passage is most likely a reference to

Greco-Roman culture

Which of the following is best supported by the passage in the Twelve Articles of Peasants?

Landlords began to restrict some of the traditional rights of the peasantry.

Which of the following is a characteristic of the social and economic situation described in the passage of the Twelve Articles of Peasants?

Many farmers and peasants were forced to rely upon subsistence agriculture.

Which of the following best explains the changes in prices indicated by the graph?

Population growth in an expanding economy

According to the above ________ source the author believes that the traditional historical view of the Renaissance is ___________

Secondary; Eurocentric

The passage provides evidence for which of the following features of traditional rural life?

Status and hierarchy often defined the rural experience of life.

Which of the following best supports Burckhardt's argument?

The Italians embraced humanism earlier than the peoples of northern Europe.

Which of the following best explains the trend in Europe's population between 1400 and 1600?

The increase in natural reproduction after the Black Death

The ideas expressed in the passage best illustrate which of the following characteristics of European life in the late fifteenth century?

The persistence of superstition and folk ideas throughout the fifteenth century despite the growth of humanism.

The above structure was MOST likely created to

glorify the Catholic church

Which of the following philosophies underlay the above structure?

humanism

The Renaissance was a movement in which intellectuals and artists proclaimed a new vision of humankind and raised fundamental questions about the value and importance of the:

individual

Christine de Pisan's views regarding educational opportunity in the passage above were first embraced by

leaders of the Protestant Reformation

The ideas expressed in the passage, Six Books of the Republic, were most likely a result of which of the following factors?

new ideas of civic humanism that reflected new models of political behavior

Bodin's argument in the passage is best explained in the context of

the development of increasingly centralized monarchies during the sixteenth century

Which of the following would have best facilitated the spread of the ideas discussed by Burckhardt in the late-fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?

the development of the movable type printing press

In the passage above, Christine de Pisan is most likely responding to

the existence of a patriarchal social structure that dominated European society