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Renaissance
"Renaissance" is the term customarily employed to designate a cultural movement that began in Italy in the middle of the fourteenth century and spread throughout the rest of ...
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The Renaissance and Enlightenment
Semantics, Logic, and Epistemology
As the Middle Ages gave way to the Renaissance in the late fifteenth century, logic (on which semantics had been centered) first lo...
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Origins of the Renaissance
The Spirit of Humanism
The Search for New Worlds
The Rise of the Merchant Class
New Artistic Attitudes
Writers of the Renaissance
The Printing Press
The Reformation of the ...
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The Renaissance—a term that means rebirth—is the period in European history marked by a renewed interest in classical scholarship and art forms that had been forsaken by much of society du...
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Circa 4 Million to 1 Million B.C.E.
Circa 1.5 Million to 200,000 B.C.E.
Circa 1,000,000-10,000 B.C.E.
Circa 250,000 B.C.E.
Circa 40,000 B.C.E.
Circa 8000 B.C.E.
5000 B.C.E.
Circa 4000-3500 B.C.E.
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Dark Ages. Greek culture produced great advances in natural philosophy (science) and medicine in classical antiquity. These developments were written in Greek, even after the Roman empire expanded and...
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Crises. In 1350 the Catholic Church faced two major crises. One was the Black Death (1347-1351), which led to a preoccupation with death and the appearance of a highly mechanical form of religiosity t...
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Reciprocal Relationship. The intellectual and religious changes of the Renaissance and Reformation are often regarded primarily as the shapers of large institutions and structures of society: the chur...
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Strategies. Early-modern Europeans feared disorder, and every aspect of their society aimed at preventing, or at least curtailing, it. With this overriding objective, Europeans persecuted lepers and h...
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Holy Roman Empire. In the Middle Ages the accepted form of government was the monarchy, in which one man had absolute authority, and the ideal was the universal empire, in which all the peoples of the...
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A Hybrid Economy. The period between 1350 and 1600 laid the foundation for the rise of Europe to economic predominance in the world. However, for much of the period, the actual economic progress of Eu...
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Sign of the Times. In the thirteenth century, a Franciscan friar named Roger Bacon sent an appeal for calendar reform from England to the Pope in Rome. Bacon correctly calculated that the calendar was...
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Introduction. Surviving images, texts, and artifacts from the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries provide scholars with a partial, somewhat opaque, picture of early modern society. European...
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Interdependence. Physical geography is the study of the earth's surface and natural features. Geographers consider climate, but they focus primarily on topography, which consists of the physical chara...
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The "rebirth of the arts", in the time period known simply as the Renaissance, created new opportunities for talented artists, architects, and writers. The writers are especially well known, for their...
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During the Renaissance, The Annunciation was one of the more typical paintings chosen by an artist, making his rendition his own. Three quite significant renditions include Simone Martini's The ...
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During the Renaissance, people had different values of education. People of the 15th century differed in ideas with people of the 17th century. People had different views on what education should be u...
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"A new and thoroughgoing reformation, an amelioration of the faith and a renovation of the clergy," are the ideas during the transition from the Renaissance to the Reformation. During the Renaissance ...
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There was no doubt a leap in human achievement in almost every field. The renewed interest in classical works greatly helped fuel the great minds of that age and in turn also reflected in the works t...
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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 ...
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The Renaissance was a time of flourishing culture. Humanism became more influential and people began to give more value to the arts. Thereby, education in these arts became necessary. As the renais...
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The word Renaissance means rebirth. The Renaissance, 1300's to 1500's differ from the Medieval Period, or Middle ages, 1000-1300, in three different ways. These ways were art, literature, and the po...
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The Renaissance in Europe was a political movement in Europe that revived Greek and Roman art, literature and learning. The Enlightenment sparked reason and the use of the Scientific method to expl...
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The six characteristics of the Renaissance can be found in this time period many ways. The renewed interest in the past relates because the artists and painters made new modern marvel arts. Michelan...
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Artwork from different times can illustrate many different ideas about a society's social life. There were many societal changes, social, political, and economical, between the Middle Ages (450AD - ...
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Many questions come to mind when talking about the time of the Renaissance. Especially questions about the women of that time. `How did they live"' `What was it like to be a woman"' `Were they treated...
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The Renaissance, meaning "Rebirth", started in Italy and gradually spread throughout Europe. Italy was at the center of a period of influential creativity. There was a renewal of interest in the...
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The Renaissance, the French word for renewal or rebirth, changed the face of medieval Europe. From the 14th to the early 16th century, the Renaissance continued to impact Europe. Starting in the Ital...
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Historians often refer to the renaissance as a Scientific Revolution. It was during this period that Nicolas Copernicus first suggested the revolution of the Earth around the Sun. This was groundbreak...
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The Renaissance was a time of rebirth in the entire western world, including Europe. The idea of humanism was also being spread at that time, which coincided with some of the values of the Renaissa...
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The Renaissance was a time of rebirth in Europe from roughly 1350 until 1650 in Europe. During this time, peoples' lives expanded and new ideas and philosophies were spreading across Europe. Although ...
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History is a funny thing. I don't mean as in hahaha, but as in the way that it is played on after it happens. For example, let's take the Scientific Revolution. Even though it took place over hundreds...
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The Middle Ages and the Renaissance were completely different eras in history, and yet both time periods shared many similarities. These similarities and differences made both eras in time promin...
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Historians often refer to the renaissance as a Scientific Revolution. It was during this period that Nicolas Copernicus first suggested the revolution of the Earth around the Sun. This was groundbreak...
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The Renaissance era was a time for great change, new ideas, and new techniques. This time period experienced significant changes in the fields of Politics, Science, and Religion. These changes cause...
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The Renaissance was a cultivated rebirth, or revival, of conventional art, architecture, literature, and science that originated in Italy in the Fourteenth Century and later spread throughout Europe f...
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A drastic change called the Renaissance occurred in Europe. The people in Europe began to thing differently. They thrived to improve their daily life on Earth, rather than constantly worry about the...
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The Renaissance
Shakespeare lived from 1564 to 1616, also known as the renaissance, which actually means `rebirth'. It was a great time of learning and exploration. Some of the most famous names in h...
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During the time period 1300 to 1600, Europe went through democratic changes. The old feudal system that was based on the manor farms began to disappear. The crusades re-introduced trade between the ea...
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Classical Influence on the Renaissance
The Renaissance was a series of literary and cultural movements that began in Italy and spread into other parts of Europe in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries;...
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The Importance of the "Guide of Reason"
The "guide of reason" is a concept from the Renaissance period that is used to describe the need of the people from this specific time period to have their que...
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Medieval and Renaissance paintings of the 15th and 16th centuries are a great example of how art gradually changes over time. Although the paintings and artists will reiterate certain aspects in late...
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Renaissance Europe 1300-1600: Architecture and Design
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European Renaissance and Reformation 1350-1600: Timeline
