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The Humanistic Tradition, 4/e
Gloria K. Fiero
Adversity and Challenge: The Fourteenth-Century Transition

Chapter Outline

  1. Historical Context
    1. Black Death
      1. Boccaccio's narrative
      2. political and economic effects: France and England
    2. Hundred Years' War
    3. Decline of the Church
      1. Avignon Papacy; Great Schism
      2. anticlericalism and devotional piety
  2. Literature in Transition
    1. Boccaccio
    2. Christine de Pisan
    3. Chaucer
  3. Art and Music in Transition
    1. Giotto
    2. devotional realism and portraiture
    3. ars nova in music








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