World Literature 271 Name:__________________

J. Roth

Web-Based Assignment on the Renaissance

(10 points)

Due: Sunday, February 25, 2007

Directions: First, please browse the following website to get a sense of the next era we will be exploring. Then, using the website as a resource, please answer the following

questions.

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/index.html

1. What is an astrolabe? What was its use?

2. Who invented the first printing press? Why was its invention so profound?

3. What was humanism? How did it differ from what guided most scholars in The Middle Ages?

4. With what Italian city was The Renaissance most closely associated? Why?

5. In what major way would a gallery of Renaissance painting differ from a gallery of Medieval painting? (Hint: it has to do with the subjects)