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    The Renaissance defined.-- "Renaissance‚" French for "rebirth‚" perfectly describes the intellectual and economic changes that occurred in Europe from the fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries. During the era known by this name‚ Europe emerged from the economic stagnation of the Middle Ages and experienced a time of financial growth. Also‚ and perhaps most importantly‚ the Renaissance was an age in which artistic‚ social‚ scientific‚ and political thought turned in new directions. DANTE

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    Summary about Renaissance Renaissance is the Frech term was used to decribe an entire period of rebirth – “rebirth” of ancient traditional‚ took as its foundation the art of Classical antiquity‚ but transformed that tradition by the absorption of recent developments in the art of Northern Europe and by application of contemporary scientific knowledge. It is the painting‚ sculpture and decorative arts of that period of European history known as the “Renaissance”‚ parallel with developments which

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    HIST 125 – Assignment #1 – Renaissance. “The world was governed throughout by the omnipotent will and omniscient mind of God‚ whose sole interests were centered in man‚ his trial‚ his fall‚ his suffering and his glory. Worm of the dust as he was‚ man was yet the central object in the whole universe…. And when his destiny was completed‚ the heavens would be rolled up as a scroll and he would dwell with the Lord forever. Only those who rejected God’s freely offered grace and with hardened hearts

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    Burford Humanism Reaction Paper Humanistic psychology was developed in the 1950s in opposition to psychoanalysis and behaviorism‚ which were the leading psychological perspectives at the time. Psychoanalysis focuses on the unconscious motivations that impact behavior‚ while behaviorism examines the conditioning processes that form a person’s behavior. Humanistic psychology has no single founder‚ but is made up of different theories‚ that should be considered separately. Further‚ humanism can be defined

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    The Renaissance

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    The Renaissance From the fall of the Holy Roman Empire to there was a dark age in Europe where all technology and thinking stopped. Europe was a battleground for feudal lords and their knights trying to control the surrounding territories. The dark ages started to end when Pope Urban the 2nd called for the crusades of the holy lands and the city of Jerusalem. The renaissance began in Italy‚ and spreading to the rest of Europe by the 16th century‚ its influence was felt in literature‚ philosophy

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    Humanism In The Dark Ages

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    After the fall of the western Roman Empire in the year 476 A.D.‚ Europe fell into a period of backwards economic‚ cultural‚ and academic progress now commonly known as the Dark Ages. Over the next eight hundred years‚ living conditions across Europe deteriorated‚ the populations of the former Roman Empire reverted to barter system economies‚ and progress of all kinds across the continent slowed to a crawl – or so the popular view of history tells us. In the year 711 A.D.‚ a Muslim army of seven thousand

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    Humanism: the belief system that laid the foundation for the Renaissance to reshape Europe. A movement of forward thinking men and philosophers who used ancient Greek and Roman texts to reshape their views of the world and reject the Medieval ways of thinking‚ breaking tradition by shifting man’s focus from the ethereal to the temporal. No longer would men accept religious or societal standards just because some dignitary declared them to be so. Instead‚ they would be lauded for thinking for themselves

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    The Renaissance The Renaissance (16th and early 17th centuries): towards the end of the Middle Ages‚ after the loss of the English territories in France‚ England suffered thirty years of civil war fought by rival aristocratic families for the throne: the Wars of the Roses. The Welsh Tudor family was victorious and proceeded to secure its position. The dynasty ruled from 1485 to 1603‚ and was succeeded by Scottish relatives – and former opponents – the Stuarts. The military power of the aristocracy

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    there a revival of? Humanism; Prior to the Renaissancearts and learning were all channeled through the Church. With the flowering of the Renaissance‚ there was a renewed interest in (acceptance) of secular humanism‚ as represented by interest in secular philosophy. Interest in the sciences; Galileo‚ anatomical dissection as represented by Da Vinci The Arts; Prior to the Renaissance‚ virtually all art was religious in subject and the Church was the major patron of the arts. Think of Michelangelo’s

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    Period: Early Renaissance (1200-1400) Characteristics: Heavy symbolism as well as extreme detail‚ vibrant‚ rich colors‚ religious scenes Location: Italy Characterized by: Everyday life‚ religious like byzantine‚ architecture Romanesque w/ gothic ornamentation • Nicolo Pisano o Pulpit (1260) • Highly detailed-classical • Nicola (Giovanni son) Pisano o The Annunciation ‚ Nativity‚ Admiration of the Shepherds (1270) • Plaza and Cathedral of Florence (1290) o Very Romanesque piazza w/

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