Concepts I
The study of human endeavor
What is Humanism?
Treatise on the proper running of a state
What is The Prince - Niccolò Machiavelli?
The writings of this former monk would lead to the end of a universal church and thus universal historiography
Who is Martin Luther?
A claim on an earlier institution; stressing things from the past haven't changed
What is Continuity?
Textual evidence that a source isn't from when it says it's from
What is Anachronism?
What is Macbeth? - William Shakespeare
His investigation of the Donation of Constantine introduced the idea of anachronisms and fraudulent sources
Who is Lorenzo Valla?
Philosophy of history that stressed the agency of everyday people as agents of the state
What is Civic Humanism?
History of the church, pioneered as justification for new Protestant sects
What is Ecclesiastical History?
Moorish author's theory of history and fear of a return to a pre-civilized state
What is The Muqqadimah - Ibn Khaldun?
Italian diplomat and father of political science, his scientific reading of history informed his governing policy
Who is Niccolò Machiavelli?
Religious schism that destroyed universal salvation historiography and led to two competing church histories
What is the Protestant Reformation?
The study of physical objects of the past, usually by amateurs
What is Antiquarianism?
Secular history of a whole city-state, called the first modern history
What is History of the Florentine People - Leonardo Bruni?
Who is Giorgio Vasari?
Part of the later Renaissance, this "Age" kicked off a scientific revolution and interest in reorienting history as a hard science
What is the Age of Discovery?
Name given to the middle era in the Renaissance view that history was a rise, fall, then return to grace. We still use it to describe this period today
What is The Dark Ages?
1503 history of Milan, one of the first patriotic historiographies and the first to be written in vernacular Italian rather than Latin
What is the Patria Historia - Bernardino Corio?
Author of three multi-volume texts on ancient Rome, considered the first archaeologist and eschewed authoritative sources in favor of finding new information
Who is Flavio Biondo?
The idea that a scholar should embody the deepest knowledge of science and the arts and physical fitness; the pinnacle of humanist achievement
What is a Renaissance Man?