European History - The Renaissance - DBQ Sources

The DBQ essay is designed to make YOU the historian by placing YOU in the middle of history. Using the documents/sources AND your knowledge of the time period please write an essay that responds to the following question.

The question will be given to you on test day.

Do NOT use phrases like, Document 1 shows.... (in fact, the word “shows” is banned altogether)

Do use phrases and citations like, European artists put man at the front and... (4). or Peter Bruegelʼs depictions of peasant life suggest... (2).

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Document 1 - Source: Masaccio The Trinity (fresco)

Document 2 - Pieter Bruegel Peasant Life (c. 1560s)

Document 3 - Source #s 21 and 75 of Martin Lutherʼs 95 Theses

21. Therefore those preachers of indulgences are in error, who say that by the pope's indulgences a man is freed from every penalty, and saved;

75. To think the papal pardons so great that they could absolve a man even if he had committed an impossible sin and violated the Mother of God -- this is madness.

Document 4 - Source Universities founded in Europe in the 1300s, 1400s and 1500s

Document 5 - Source Leonardo da Vinci “Study of animals...” (1500s drawings)

Document 6 Source (MSN Encarta) Great poets, playwrights and writers of England during the Renaissance

Document 7 Source Lucas Cranach, engraving, Martin Lutherʼs church in Wittenberg, Germany

Document 8 Source Engraving English country life during the Renaissance, 1500s

Document 9 Source (secondary) William Waugh, A History of Europe, 1980

“The merits of artists and the influence of Humanist scholars must be acknowledged. But one must be aware of exaggerating the practical results of their work. It is undeniable that very few people knew or cared anything about the sayings or doings of the Humanists.”

Document 10 Source Erasmus, Dutch humanist scholar, Christian thinker and rationalist, writing in the late 1400s

“The world is waking out of a long deep sleep.”

Document 11 Source Ancient Arabic drawings of the solar system used by Renaissance astronomer Copernicus to show the earth revolves around the sun