Mason Chapters 6,7 #1502 MWF 11-11:50 Middle Ages The idea that the Middle Ages were "dark ages" has been exaggerated a lot. ... There are the Early, High, and Late Middle Ages. ... The system of cardinals electing the pope was developed, which took Church power out of the hands of wealthy secular people. ... One very important accomplishment of the High Middle Ages was universities. ... Politically changing with every ruler made the Middle Ages a very rough time. ...

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If one were to gaze upon the statue of "David" by Michelangelo (1475-1564), they would notice the high esteem in which the human body was portrayed. ... In 1368 Petrarch wrote De sui ipsius et multorum ignorantia (On his own ignorance and that of many others), which became a significant example of the contrast of humanism of the Renaissance to scholasticism of the Middle Ages. ... Petrarch urged others to awaken from the darkness "of the Middle Ages and move forward out of "the slumber of forgetfulness into the pure radiance of the past" (Humanism 1). ... At first, the humanists fervently defe...

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The period is more or less considered as playing out what had been set up in the later Middle Ages. ... It was during this time that Europe was busy pulling herself out of the economic stagnation of the Middle Ages. ... Of all the practices of Renaissance Europe, nothing is used to distinguish the Renaissance from the Middle Ages more than humanism as both a program and a philosophy. ... During the Middle Ages, painters and sculptors tried to give their works a spiritual quality, wanting their audience to focus on the deep religious meaning of their works of art. ... Renaissance writers wa...

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