Discussion - Humanities

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ADVERSITY AND CHANGE: Why is the fourteenth century known as the century of adversity and change?

BOCCACCIO:  How does Boccaccio’s “Tale of Filippa” illustrate a new attitude toward women in society? What aspects of this tale are representative of social realism?

LITERATURE/ART:  Give examples from the literature and art in this chapter in which vivid pictorial and psychological details replace generalizations and abstractions.

MYSTICS:  The fourteenth century was a great age of mystics. Who were some of these figures and what did they contribute?

CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY:   What were the landmark developments in the rise of England’s constitutional monarchy?