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Humanities 101

MS. ROBERTSON

Focus Areas: 14th - 15th Centuries

Literature: Dante and Chaucer

How did literature shape people's ideas about life?

Continued spread of scholasticism and its impact on life

Literature

Posthumous portrait in tempera by Sandro Botticelli, 1495

  • Giotto's contribution to painting
  • Representation of 3D space

Visual Art

Ognissanti Madonna, (c. 1310) Tempera on wood, 325 by 204 centimetres (128 by 80 inches) Uffizi, Florence

Architecture

Background

Europe devastated by plague and population loss

Golden Age of Islam coming to a close

Pieter Bruegel's The Triumph of Death reflects the social upheaval and terror that followed plague, which devastated medieval Europe.

Scholars at an Abbasid library, from the Maqamat of al-Hariri by Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti, Baghdad, 1237.

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