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    Renaissance Ideals

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    What were the ideals of the Renaissance, and how did Italian artists and writers reflect these ideals? During the age of the Renaissance the spread of writing, art, and ideas flourished. The Renaissance was based off many ideas. However, the two most important ideals were the evolution of a new worldview and humanism. Italian artists used their skills in art to spread these ideas. They reflected all of the aspects of the Renaissance in their pieces and shared them with the world. While, Italian

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    Renaissance: a word familiar to many and typically associated with the flourishing renewal of ancient Greek and Roman ideas in sixteenth century European culture. The question is, could that be the only renaissance? Many changes also occurred in twelfth century European intellectual and cultural life that could signify a renaissance. Portions of secular and religious life changed to some extent and often these changes sprouted from ancient traditions. However, to determine the existence of a renaissance

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    The Renaissance was a rebirth of the ideas of ancient Greece and Rome that began in the City States of Italy during the 14th century. The cultural resurgence began a new style of living in Europe after the horrors of the black death, and is seen as the beginning of the culture of the modern world. As Wassace K. Ferguson put in his book The Renaissance, the Italian artists grew tired of the darkness of Medieval Times and began to turn to the brighter times found in the classical ages (Doc 7). The

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    the renaissance? Bartlett defined the renaissance as a fluid enhancement of ideology, not a fixed point of dated history. Bartlett was very insistent that the old ideas of periodization had no ability to contain the renaissance or to encompass it. The renaissance Bartlett believed, was a historical force of new ideas and a revolution of sorts, for people to view the world around them not as it is physically seen, but as the idea of something greater and larger unseen. During the renaissance there

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    The Middle Ages took place during 500-1300 CE and the Renaissance happened around the 14th century to the 17th century. Because of their occurrence in the same country, Catholicism does a lot for the state. Even though that is true, the Middle Ages did a lot more with religion while the Renaissance started to have more scientists who would use rational thought. The Middle Ages and the Renaissance in Europe had many economic and social differences as well as similarities. Being a patriarchal society

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    The Renaissance wasn’t a place, even though it was born in Italy, it was a state of mind, or rather change of mind. The Renaissance grew from those who survived the Dark Ages and Black Death when people thought fate ruled life and there was little hope for change. The people wanted new reasons to live. The intellectuals of the Byzantine Empire left for Italy, a long time trading partner, and brought with them ancient classical texts that Europeans thought were gone forever. The foreign influx with

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    The Renaissance began in Florence, Italy around the 1500’s to about the 1700’s. Florence, Italy was the mecca of this rebirth because at the time Florence was extremely wealthy and the people of the city had political freedom and those new ideals of the Renaissance were not being condemned in Florence as they were other cities. This was a time where the arts and the logic of one’s own mind was valued rather than criticized, the antiquated medieval ideals no longer matched the needs of those who were

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    by a feudalistic society, the king granted large pieces of land called fiefs to noblemen and bishops. The Renaissance, also known as “the rebirth” which started in Italy, was a period between the 14th and 16th century where new ideas were born through the revival of the classical art and intellect of Ancient Greece and Rome. Following the plague of the 14th and 15the centuries the Renaissance was fueled by soldiers returning from the Crusades. There became a renewed interest in Greek and Roman art

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    The Renaissance The Renaissance was a time that has truly affected the way we see the world today. This was a time of beauty and was also the birth of a civilized society. This time has definitely sparked the beginning of education through books, science and arts. Still today we study books in order to educate ourselves about the sciences and arts. The Renaissance has clearly shaped parts of society in which we see and admire today. The Renaissance was a time of change that was heavily influenced

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    Renaissance Peasants Life

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    that since the peasants were not able to enjoy the knowledge, luxury and arts of the renaissance due to their poorness, therefore, they did not experience it. However, that is not true; even though they did not enjoy things like art and luxury, they did experience the renaissance, but just differently than other people. At the beginning of the 14th century –which became known later as the beginning of the renaissance- life in Europe was still medieval, by working on the land of the wealthy lords and

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