The Renaissance

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The Renaissance

• Major Characteristics

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Renaissance

• What An age of recovery that saw a re-birth of
  classical culture from ancient Greece and Rome

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Renaissance

• When Started in the late 14th century and
  extended into the early 16th century

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Renaissance

• Where Began in the Italian city-states before
  spreading to northern and western Europe

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Renaissance

• Who Elite phenomenon that had only an indirect
  impact on the great mass of society

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Renaissance

• How This new urban society emerged out of the
  growing wealth from trade that promoted a new
  spirit for enjoying more worldly things (growth
  in secularism individualism)

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Renaissance

• Why
• Growing corruption and weakness of the Church
• Increasing recovery from the dismal 14th century
• Discovery of the ancient classics
• Spread of printing

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Renaissance

• Historical significance
• Promoted a new worldview that emphasized
  individual ability and worldly accomplishments

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Effects of the Renaissance

• Humanism
• A form of education and culture based on the
  study of the classics of ancient Rome Greece
  (Petrarch)
• Program revolved around the Liberal Arts
  grammar, rhetoric, poetry, ethics, history
• This was often seen as something that should be
  shared with the broader community in the sense of
  a civic duty to serve the city-state (Italian)
• An underlying belief in the educatibility of all
  human beings (education was key to true freedom
  in that it allowed people to achieve their full
  potential)

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Effects of the Renaissance

• Development of Vernacular Languages
• Impact of Printing
• Developed during this time period
• Johannes Gutenberg and moveable type (between
  1445 and 1450)
• Quickly became one of the largest industries in
  Europe
• Encouraged scholarly learning and research,
  sharing of research, expanded literacy