Unit 1 KEY QUOTES

"You may ask What then is the Word of God and how shall it be used since there are so many words of God To preach Christ means to feed the soul make it righteous free it and save it provided it believes the preaching"

-Martin Luther-Challenged the Catholic Church's path to salvation based on works

"We have made you neither of heaven nor of earth neither mortal nor immortal so that with free choice and dignity you may fashion yourself into whatever form you choose to be reborn into the higher forms the divine"

-Pico della Mirandola-Defined Renaissance humanism's focus on human potential

"Every baptized Christian is a priest already not by appointment or ordination from the Pope or any other man but because Christ Himself has begotten him as a priest in baptism"

-Martin Luther-Dismantled the church hierarchy by empowering individuals

"Now what shall I Folly say about those who find great comfort in soothing self-delusions about pardons for their sins measuring out the times in purgatory down to the droplet of a waterclock parceling out centuries years months days hours as if they were using mathematical tables"

-Desiderius Erasmus-Mocked corrupt religious practices fueling the Reformation

"I pass over the little regard that citizens and relations showed to each other for their terror was such that a brother even fled from his brother a wife from her husband and what is more uncommon a parent from his own child"

-Giovanni Boccaccio-Illustrated how the plague shattered fundamental social bonds

"In the first place when pressed by the temporal power they have made decrees In the second place when they are pressed they make the retort that only the pope may interpret the Scriptures In the third place if threatened with a council their story is that no one may summon a council but the pope"

-Martin Luther-Undermined papal power by establishing the Bible as the sole religious authority

"In this branch of knowledge are the subjects that are related to life and behavior which are called the humanities studia humanitatis because they become a man and perfect him"

-Leonardo Bruni-Defined Renaissance education as cultivating well-rounded individuals

"For rebellion is not just simple murder it is like a great fire which attacks and devastates a whole land Thus rebellion brings with it a land filled with murder and bloodshed"

-Martin Luther-Showed the Reformation was not a social revolution and supported existing secular power

"We few we happy few we band of brothers For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother be he ne'er so vile This day shall gentle his condition"

-William Shakespeare-Showed honor earned in battle could transcend the rigid social hierarchy (King Henry V promises that all soldiers fighting with him will become brothers, and the honor they earn in battle will raise the social status of even the lowest men.)

"From this point of view the Renaissance may be regarded as the age of transition from medieval to modern civilization a period characterized by the gradual shift from a land-based to a commercial and urban economy"

-Wallace K Ferguson-Economic shift created a new wealthy urban class that became the primary patrons of Renaissance art

"To the cure of this melody neither medical knowledge nor the power of drugs was of any effect whether because the disease was in its own nature mortal or that the physicians could form no idea of the cause nor consequently devise a proper method of cure"

-Giovanni Boccaccio-Highlighted the failure and limits of medieval medicine against the Black Death

"What numbers of both sexes in the prime and vigor of youth breakfasted in the morning with their living friends and supped at night with their departed friends in the other world"

-Giovanni Boccaccio-Illustrated the overwhelming speed and scale of death during the plague

"They formed circles and beat upon their backs with weighted scourges they flogged their shoulders and arms with scourges tipped with iron points so zealously as to draw blood"

-Jean de Venette-Demonstrated the Flagellants extreme religious response to the Black Death trauma

"As a result of this theory of infected water and air as the source of the plague the Jews were suddenly and violently charged with infecting wells and water and corrupting the air The whole world rose up against them cruelly on this account"

-Jean de Venette-Demonstrated the scapegoating (person who is blamed for the faults of others) and violent persecution of minorities during the crisis

"After the cessation of the epidemic pestilence or plague the men and women who survived married each other but on the contrary fertility beyond the ordinary Nor by the mortality resulting from this terrible plague inflicted by God was peace between kings and lords established"

-Jean de Venette-Showed the plague led to social upheaval and conflict rather than moral renewal

"Study hard then and each day add something more to your stock of knowledge mindful of the enormous rewards such study affords for your establishment in life and for the fame and glory of your name"

-Leonardo Bruni-Highlighted learning as a path to secular glory and fame