Intro Questions:

Questions
1. What was life like for most people during the Middle ages?
2. Why did many people begin to question institutions like
government and the church at the end of the Middle Ages?
3. How did the birth of City States lead to the beginnings of the
Renaissance?
4. How did the bubonic plague help start this intellectual and
artistic movement?
Renaissance Intro Notes
Idea

Contribution on the Renaissance

Movement

Examples

Merchants
and the
Medici
Humanism
Secularism
Patrons

Renaissance Men and Women

Renaissance Men

Talents or
skills

Famous Works Legacy

Michelangelo
40
Leonardo Da Vinci
41
Raphael
41
Renaissance
Women
Isabella dEste
39

Talents or skills

Legacy

Famous Works

Legacy

Vittoria Colonna
39
Sofonisba
Aunguissola
41

Renaissance
Writers
Petrarch
41
Machiavelli
42
Desiderius Erasmus
48
Thomas More
48
William Shakespeare
49

Reformation Warm Up
1. If you could choose someone or something to protest against who
would it be? (i.e. parents, school, government)

2. Write down your top five complaints you have with them.

Round Table Instructions

On the chart:
1. In the upper left corner summarize Martin Luthers arguments
against the church as you are reading.
2. In remaining quadrants listen to your group mates response
and take notes.
3. In the diamond come to your own conclusion about the
arguments Martin Luther had against the Catholic Church.

Selections from Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of

Indulgences Commonly Known as The 95 Theses by Dr.
Martin Luther
Prompt: Summarize the purpose of Martin Luthers 95 Theses.
Marking the Text:
1. Underline words and phrases focused the misuse of indulgences.
2. Circle words or phrases Luther uses to illustrate what is necessary to achieve forgiveness.
Prior to Reading:
Define the following terms from the textbook.
1. Indulgence
2. Reformation
3. Lutheran
4. Protestant Read the Text Silently to yourself.
Out of love and concern for the truth, and with the object of eliciting it, the following heads will
be the subject of a public discussion at Wittenberg under the presidency of the reverend father,
Martin Luther, Augustinian, Master of Arts and Sacred Theology, and duly appointed Lecturer on
these subjects in that place. He requests that whoever cannot be present personally to debate
the matter orally will do so in absence in writing.

21.Hence those who preach indulgences are in error when they say that a man is absolved and
saved from every penalty by the pope's indulgences.
22.Indeed, he cannot remit to souls in purgatory any penalty which canon law declares should be
suffered in the present life.
24.It must therefore be the case that the major part of the people are deceived by that
indiscriminate and high-sounding promise of relief from penalty.

27.There is no divine authority for preaching that the soul flies out of the purgatory immediately
the money clinks in the bottom of the chest.
28.It is certainly possible that when the money clinks in the bottom of the chest avarice and
greed increase; but when the church offers intercession, all depends in the will of God.

32. All those who believe themselves certain of their own salvation by means of letters of
indulgence, will be eternally damned, together with their teachers.

36.Any Christian whatsoever, who is truly repentant, enjoys plenary remission from penalty and
guilt, and this is given him without letters of indulgence.

40.Papal indulgences should only be preached with caution, lest people gain a wrong
understanding, and think that they are preferable to other good works: those of love.

43.Christians should be taught that one who gives to the poor, or lends to the needy, does a
better action than if he purchases indulgences.
44.Because, by works of love, love grows and a man becomes a better man; whereas, by
indulgences, he does not become a better man, but only escapes certain penalties.

53.Those are enemies of Christ and the pope who forbid the word of God to be preached at all in
some churches, in order that indulgences may be preached in others.
Post Reading: On the chart below #1 in the upper left corner summarize Martin
Luthers arguments against the church. #2 In remaining quadrants listen to your
group mates response and take notes. In the diamond come to your own conclusion
about the arguments Martin Luther had against the Catholic Church.
Personal Summary
Summary

Partner 2

Partner 3 Summary
Summary

Partner 2

The Reformation and the Printing Press

1. During the Renaissance people started writing in the
vernacular. What does that mean and how does it change
peoples ability to access information? (41)
2. Johann Gutenberg invented the printing press in 1440. How
does this change the amount of information available to
people? (50)
3. How did both writing in the vernacular and the invention of
the printing press help start the reformation? (55)

Religious Reformers Timeline

Find influential people that changed the religion in Europe.
Put them on a timeline and analyze what they did and how it
impacted the power of the Catholic Church. Pages 54 -66
Pope Alexander VI
John Wycliffe
Martin Luther
Johann Tetzel
Pope Leo X
Henry VIII
Elizabeth I
Huldrych Zwingli
John Calvin
John Knox
Ignatius of Loyola
Pope Paul III

Pope Alexander VI He was a Renaissance Pope who spent a lot of money patronizing the
arts. He was more concerned with worldly pleasures than with his
spiritual responsibilities, for example he fathered several children.
People began to lose faith in their church and question its authority as
a result.
John Wycliffe
He translated the Bible into English and taught people that the Bible
had more authority than any popes or priests. He was also argued
against church leaders having secular or worldly power. People will
begin to understand the Bible and question the church leaders abuses.
Martin Luther

Religion Web
Each person is going to be assigned a religion. For each
religion build a web that illustrates details about the
religions.
Who formed the religion?
What are their basic beliefs?
Where was the religion formed?
When was the religion created?
Why was the religion created?
How was it created?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.

Lutheranism
Anglicanism
Calvinism
Presbyterianism
Anabaptism
Jesuits

Who/When/Where

How/Why

What

Lutheranism

Anglicanism

Calvinism

Presbyterianis
m

Anabaptism

Jesuits

Review Summary Paragraphs: Pick 3 major circumstances or

changes for each question below. Be sure then analyze or support
your ideas.
14. Discuss the changes that took place during the
Renaissance.
15. Discuss the changes that happened as a result of the
Reformation.