The attitudes, beliefs and ideas emerging from Renaissance are quite different from those of the Middle Ages. It can be deduced from the name alone that it was different form the Middle Ages. If it wasn't, it would be part of the Middle Ages as well. The word "renaissance" means rebirth or revival, but it was much more than that. The Renaissance was "the transitional movement in Europe between medieval and modern times beginning in the 14th century in Italy, lasting into the 17th century, and marked by a humanistic revival of classical influence expressed in a flowering of the arts and literature and by the beginnings of modern science."

One of the main differences in ideas would be that of the church and the highest good. In the Middle Ages, it was believed that one could only achieve the highest good from salvation of the soul. Well...