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Voices of the Renaissance: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life

Voices of the Renaissance: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life

Wagner, John A.

Hardcover

Series: Voices of an Era

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral SociologyItalian History

ISBN10: 1440876037
ISBN13: 9781440876035
Publisher: Greenwood
Published: Feb 4 2022
Pages: 360
Weight: 2.80
Height: 1.10 Width: 8.40 Depth: 11.10
Language: English

The documents in this collection trace the course of the Renaissance in Italy and northern Europe, describing the emergence of a vibrant and varied intellectual and artistic culture in various states, cities, and kingdoms.

Voices of the Renaissance: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life contains excerpts from 52 different documents relating to the period of European history known as the Renaissance. In the 14th century, the rise of humanism, a philosophy based on the study of the languages, literature, and material culture of ancient Greece and Rome, led to a sense of revitalization and renewal among the city-states of northern Italy. The political development and economic expansion of those cities provided the ideal conditions for humanist scholarship to flourish. This period of literary, artistic, architectural, and cultural flowering is today known as the Renaissance, a term taken from the French and meaning rebirth.

The Italian Renaissance reached its height in the 15th and early 16th centuries. In the 1490s, the ideals of the Italian Renaissance spread north of the Alps and gave rise to a series of national cultural rebirths in various states. In many places, this Northern Renaissance extended into the 17th century, when war and religious discord put an end to the Renaissance era.

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