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=Unit I:= The Renaissance, Reformation and the Wars of Religion

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Pre-1450 Europe






__Corresponding chapters:__
 * Kagan Introduction ([|Companion website page])
 * Kagan Chapter 9 ([|Companion website page])

__For more information, check out these short articles from Wikipedia...__
 * [|Ancient Greece]
 * [|Ancient Rome]
 * [|Byzantine Empire]
 * [|The Roman Catholic Church]
 * [|Feudalism]
 * [|Avignon Papacy] (1305-1378)
 * [|Hundred Years' War] (1337-1453)
 * [|War of the Roses] (1455-1485)
 * [|Bubonic Plague] (a.k.a. the Black Death, Black Plague)

The Renaissance


__Corresponding chapters:__
 * Kagan Chapter 10 ([|Companion website page])
 * [|Fresh Note Helper #1]

__For more information, check out these short articles from Wikipedia...__
 * [|The Renaissance]
 * __Literature__
 * [|Dante]
 * //Divine Comedy// (1321)//:// [|Full Text version] / [|Wikipedia "short" version]
 * [|Boccaccio]
 * //The Decameron// (1353)//:// [|Full Text version] / [|Wikipedia "short" version]
 * [|Erasmus]
 * //In Praise of Folly// (1511): [|Full Text version] / [|Wikipedia "short" version]
 * [|Thomas More]
 * //Utopia// (1516): [|Full Text version] / [|Wikipedia "short" version]
 * [|Machiavelli]
 * //The Prince// (1513): [|Full Text version] / [|Wikipedia "short" version]
 * Freccia Classwork assignment on //The Prince//
 * [|Petrarch]
 * [|Shakespeare]
 * [|Cervantes]
 * __Art__
 * [|Ghiberti]
 * Sculpture: [|Gates of Paradise] (1421)
 * [|Donatello]
 * Bronze sculpture: //[|David]// (c. 1440)
 * [|Botticelli]
 * Painting: //[|Primavera]// (1482)
 * Painting: //[|Birth of Venus]// (1483)
 * [|Leonardo Da Vinci]
 * Painting: //[|The Last Supper]// (1498)
 * Painting: //[|Mona Lisa]// (1507)
 * Other: //[|Vitruvian Man]// (1492), [|Personal Notebooks]
 * [|Raphael]
 * Painting: //[|The School of Athens]// (1510)
 * [|Michelangelo]
 * Marble sculpture: //[|Pieta]// (1499)
 * Marble sculpture: //[|David]// (1504)
 * Painting: //[|The Last Judgement]// (a.k.a. the //Sistine Chapel// ceiling, 1541)
 * [|Jan van Eyck]
 * [|Rembrandt]

The Reformation




__Corresponding chapters:__
 * Kagan Chapter 11 ([|Companion website page])
 * Fresh Note Helper #2

__For more information, check out these short articles from Wikipedia...__
 * [|The Protestant Reformation]
 * __Reform in the Holy Roman Empire__
 * [|Johann Tetzel]
 * [|Martin Luther]
 * 95 Theses ([|Full Text version] / [|Wikipedia "short" version])
 * [|Lutherianism]
 * [|Diet of Worms] (1521)
 * [|Pope Leo X]
 * [|HRE Charles V] (a.k.a. Charles I of Spain)
 * [|Peasants War]
 * __Reform in Switzerland__
 * [|Huldrych Zwingli]
 * [|John Calvin]
 * [|Calvinism]
 * Spinoff: [|John Knox]'s [|Presbyterian Church]
 * __Reform in England__
 * [|Henry VIII]
 * [|Tudor Dynasty]
 * [|Anglican Church]
 * Act of Supremacy ([|Full Text version] / [|Wikipedia "short" version])

Religious Wars


__Corresponding chapters:__ __For more information, check out these short articles from Wikipedia...__
 * Kagan Chapter 12 ([|Companion website page])
 * Fresh Note Helper #3
 * [|The Protestant Reformation]
 * __Reform in France__
 * [|Huguenots]
 * [|French Wars of Religion]
 * [|Bourbon Family]
 * [|Guise Family]
 * [|St. Bartholomew's Day massacre]
 * [|Henry of Navarre] (later Henry IV of France)
 * [|Edict of Nantes] (1598)
 * __Reform in Spain__
 * [|Habsburg Spain]
 * [|Phillip II]
 * Problems with [|The United Provinces]
 * Problems with [|England] and [|Elizabeth I]
 * [|Counter-Reformation] in Spain
 * [|Spainish Inquisition]
 * __[|The Thirty Years' War]__
 * [|Peace of Augsburg] (1555)
 * [|2nd Defenstration of Prague] (1618)
 * [|Peace of Westphalia] (1648)