Renaissance Vs. Middle Ages

The renaissance era was known to be the time period of “rebirth” of society values. It was a solution to the Dark Ages and it stood out in contrast to the medieval era before it. Historians referred to the middle Ages as a period where advancements never existed. The Church was however the center of attention during this time period, instead of philosophical views of the world, beliefs were based on superstitions. On the other hand, the rebirth of education and advancements that followed the Middle Ages and was labeled as the Renaissance. There have been arguments as to whether the Renaissance is actually a separate time period, or instead, just a high point of the Middle Ages. The Renaissance was definitely a distinct era. Inspiration from
the ancient Greek and Roman people led to humanism beliefs and encouraged man to become multi-talented. Therefore, the Renaissance man, a man who excelled in many areas, became prominent. Also, the ideals of the people changed, and religion no longer ruled their lives. Advancements in all aspects of life virtually improved. Thus, many aspects lead to the change from the middle Ages to the Renaissance, a time period that was undoubtedly distinct from the middle Ages. The Renaissance was the era of “Rebirth” that led to Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and the Enlightenment of world society

Medieval Era
The medieval time period was a period where man was concerned about religious beliefs, rather than concerning about their own beliefs and talent, and this was caused because during this time everything was control by the Roman Catholics.
The medieval age is the time where there were a lot of problems occurred, it caused depopulation in the Roman Empire, and most people did not like the catholic religion controlling everything so they started moving out. Other people like Barbarians and Germanic people moved out and created their own empire which is the Western Roman Empire. There were also invasion in the Roman Empire I brought death to their people, and it cause more depopulation during that time. Society was less inspired throughout this era it was more filled with difficulties and famine, war and plague. The plague that occurred during this time period claimed seventy-five million lives it was known as the black death in the 14th century. The Church however preserved authority because they served society truth. The Church however became the most powerful empire after the fall of Rome during the medieval era. The Middle Ages was known to be the dark ages where society believed in the accepted truth from the authorities. The end of the Middle Age led to the beginning of the
Renaissance.

During the Renaissance, ideas and beliefs greatly changed. Humanism, an important movement to the Renaissance, stressed worldly ideas and beliefs and the importance of advocating human’s ideas and values. The movement drew inspiration from the ancient Greek and Roman people. Therefore, classical education began to circulate once again. The people of the middle Ages had great amounts of ignorance and believed in faith and false ideas while focusing on childish possessions, but during the Renaissance these ignorant beliefs disappeared and humanism took its place. The church was no longer the center of life for many and some lost interest in the traditional beliefs that the church was preaching. Yet, it was still an important aspect. The church had lost large amounts of power and wealth due to the humanism movement because people became less reliable on the church and could think and follow ideals on their own. But, the church was rapidly changing during this time period also, because religion was focused on wealth and the money it could obtain. Instead, many supported the idea that the people who held secular beliefs should be ruled by noblemen that were scholarly, highly educated, and not only concerned with goods. Entirely new ideas and beliefs began to circulate during the Renaissance, and the church lost much of its great influence. Renaissance however led to the Scientific Revolution. In which society no trust the accepted truth.
Scientific Revolution During the middle ages there was said to be a little scientific inquiry and experimentation. Students that were involved with science accepted and believed alleged authorities and accepted their word as truth. During the Renaissance changes started to occur. questions rose about the natural world and how things work. Andreas Vesalius was however one of the theatres whom sought to understand the natural world and how it led to the revival of botany and anatomy. The Renaissance era led to ideas of finding results and answers to unanswered questions.
Scientific observers did experimentations that never matched with the accepted truths, because of this result, it inspired most scientist to seek for more truthful answers. For instance, Nicolas Copernicus, he came up with the heliocentric theory in which he stated that “the Earth was simply one of a number of planets orbiting the Sun.” before the heliocentric theory there was the old geocentric theory which includes that “the Earth was the center of the solar system.” However the heliocentric theory was in delay due to the lack support of evidence. Some have stated that the theory was on pause for a long time. The renaissance time period was starting to develop new ideas by the early 17th century. Mathematics was one field that progress
significantly. Mathematics came with all sorts of different stages such as the advancement in algebra, trigonometry, and advance geometry. From these understandings, it help scientist with their research and it caused a rapidly advance understanding in science. Scientist Galileo Galilei, he explored the law of motion and how every object on Earth is enhanced with gravity. During this time period physicists were researching on components that created the atomic scale. Most physicists were into studying the nature of matter and understanding the properties of gases. New development of ideas arose as more and more scientist had seek of how and why things work as they do. People no longer depended on authorities and their statements about the natural world they are more involved with experimentation and the advancement of mathematics in proving their theories. Physicists began research about human bodies as well.
During the 17th century there were mysteries about the human body in which any people were unaware of. But now it is understood due to biology, in which scientist explained the human body in terms of the mechanical properties. The studies of human bodies was possible because of the advance of physics that progressed significantly. Some physics studies went from “earth to heaven.” Earth to heaven was on phrase when the scientific studies went beyond measures when Nicolas Copernicus came up with heliocentric theory, which was later on proven correct by the studies of physics. The solar system model was unknown to many scientist. Johannes Kepler proved the orbits of the planets, but she did not have that much knowledge for her to come up with a model of the solar system.