Changing Early Modern Society

Bozeman High School – AP European History

McKay et al., 7th ed. – Chapter 15, Section 4 & 5

Essential Questions

What are the preoccupations and assumptions of any age? How do those express themselves in political, social, and economic movements?

How do the art and literature of a time express its fundamental values?

Life in 16th and 17th Centuries Social Hierarchy

Countryside Towns Education means

of movement Demography

“Long 16th Century”

Cities larger increase than countryside

Patriarchal families Life Expectancy

Men 27 years Women 25 years

Witch Hunts (ca.1400-1700)

70,000-100,000 killed Causes

Popular belief in magic Catholic Church claimed

that powers came from God or devil

Women seen as “weaker vessels”

Religious wars and divisions

End of Witch Hunts Scientific Revolution of

16th & 17th c Medicine and insurance Trials chaotic Protestant Ref emphasized

God

Literature and Art

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)

Skepticism Doubt that true knowledge

could be attained Tolerant of others views

Developed a new literary genre--the essay form

“I listen with attention to the judgment of all men; but so far as I can remember, I have followed non but my own. Though I se little value upon my own opinion, I set no more on the opinions of others.”

Elizabethan and Jacobean Literature Golden Age of English

literature Shakespeare (1546-

1616) Renaissance Man Nationalistic Human problems

King James Bible 1611 committee of

scholars published at behest of James I (1603-1625)

Anglican and Puritan desire to encourage laypeople to read the Scriptures

Baroque Period

Catholic Reformation- demonstrate the glory and power of the Catholic Church

Architecture and Sculpture Bernini (1598-1650) Colonnade for piazza in

front of St. Peter’s Basilica

Canopy over the alter in St. Peter’s Cathedral

The Ecstasy of St. Teresa

Carvaggio (1571-1610)

The Entombment of Christ (1602-1603)

Death of the Virgin (1604-1606)

Reubens (1577-1640)

Horrors of War

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Baroque music almost a century later

Combined baroque spirit of invention, tension, and emotion

Not fully appreciated in his lifetime--reputation grown since early 19th c

Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor

Essential Questions

What are the preoccupations and assumptions of any age? How do those express themselves in political, social, and economic movements?

How do the art and literature of a time express its fundamental values?