One of the causes of the Renaissance was the declining credibility of the Catholic Church and the subsequent emergence of secular curiosity. ... Another of the causes of the Renaissance was the advent of new technology. ... Soon after there were more printers in Italy and this abundance of books greatly contributed to their popularity. ... Another cause of the Renaissance was the re-discovery of classical manuscripts. ... Additionally, scholars (in Italy?) ...

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Before the Renaissance, the literacy rate had been as low as five to ten percent for males. ... But during the Renaissance, the literacy rate rose starting with children all they way through grown adults. ... This phase of the Renaissance was stronger in more Italy then other countries, because Italy produced a greater volume or are than any other place did. "The newly rising Italian families were eager to surround themselves with courtly, late chivalric art." ... The Renaissance was a period during which many people began to think and act in different ways. ...

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The Renaissance The Renaissance was a period of European history, considered by modern scholars as that between 1300 and 1600. Many dramatic changes happend during the Renaissance. ... The Renaissance was started by many rich Italian cities, such as Florence, Ferrara, Milan ,and Venice. ... Also many books were published in languages other than Latin, such as English, Portugeese, Spanish, French, and Italian. ... The Renaissance produced many great minds. ...

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 The Baroque style was popular in Germany, Italy, and France from 1600 to around 1750. ... It developed from the Renaissance styles of France and Italy, making its first appearance in Rome around 1600. ... At first the architects came from Italy, but soon native architects came to dominate the field. ... In literature the Baroque style is characterized by extravagance in imagination, and extensive use of metaphor, with the Italian, Torquato Tasso being a name still known today. ... The Baroque had a big impact on painting in Italy, the Low Countries, France, England, and Spai...

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The Italian Renaissance (1450 to 1600 had started a re-thinking of man's role within the world (Socrates / Plato ) , people wanted to know what was best for the individual in his indevers through life . ... The renaissance was part of the beginning of man's thinking about himself and lead into the root beginning of the Reformation. Europe was the center of the earth for it's people and Florence Italy was the center of the renaissance and Europe was sure to be looking at her. The reformation feed off of man's thoughts of Socrates and Plato, two central renaissances philosop...

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The Renaissance, which began in Italy in 1300s, was one of the largest periods of growth and development in Western Europe. ... The Crusades which took place before the period of the Renaissance are a major factor in the coming about or "birth" of the Renaissance. ... The word Renaissance means a "rebirth". ... With these new perspectives came a new age of art within the Renaissance. ... The Split of the Church and the eight Crusades to recapture Jerusalem are two of the many reasons for the "birth" of the Renaissance, yet both are important to the birth of the Renaissance. ...

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"Inasmuch as Luther's revolt from Rome and the spread of Protestantism occurred after the height of the civilization of the Renaissance and before some particularly fundamental advances in modern European political, economic, and social development, it is tempting to think of historical events unfolding in an inevitably cumulative way, from the Renaissance to the Reformation to the "Triumph of the Modern World." ... Although scholars continue to disagree on points of detail, most agree that the Protestant Reformation drew relatively little from the civilization of the Renaissance, ...

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This humanism movement started during Renaissance period and it was based upon the study of classics, or the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome that emphasizes the dignity and worth of the individual. ... This Renaissance humanism spread and in northern Europe a new type of humanism emerged; it is called Christian humanism. ... The popes, who were supposed to be the spiritual leaders of the Catholic Church, were too often more concerned with Italian politics and worldly interests as leaders of the Papal States; they failed to meet the church's spiritua...

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To begin with, reformation of the Catholic church started in fifteenth century by the following people who were taken as the forerunners ;John Huss of Bohemia, John WY cliff of England, Girolomo of Italy and Desiderius Erasmas. ... Lastly, renaissance also contributed much to the reformation of the Catholic Church in a number of ways. Firstly, renaissance refers to the renewal of interest throughout Europe in the literature, philosophy and art of Greece and Rome. ... At the beginning of renaissance, people's attitudes, thinking and actions were no longer influential by the church. ... H...

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The Church held its power throughout the Renaissance but with great power comes great responsibility and some fell victim to greed. ... (Spark - Italian Renaissance 1). ... The art that was produced during the Renaissance did not challenge the Christian faith so it was embraced. But, the higher Renaissance gave rise to new inquiries in reference to the physical world. ... During the Renaissance there was a tremendous focus on the beauty of nature and this led curiosity of how nature works. ...

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The ingenious cultural impacts of Michelangelo during the Renaissance are still principal to Italian as well as Western culture today. ... Not to cast a shadow on the great artists and writers of the Renaissance, however, while culture is an essential part of society, it is constantly changing. ...

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The popes received large revenue sums from their extensive property holdings in Italy. ... By the end of the Middle Ages and beginning of the Renaissance in Europe there was a new branch of Christianity called Protestantism. ...

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The trial of Galileo Galilei (1633) brought a destructive impact on the world of science and humanism when it was forced to encounter scholasticism and absolutism that held power in the Catholic Church. The devastating result brought about the end of the Italian Renaissance as well as Galileo's libe...

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The movement spread across Europe and supporters of it faced violent persecution in areas such as France and the Italian Kingdoms, which were strictly Catholic. ... The Papacy controlled so much wealth during the Renaissance that popes were "held up as heroes of art and splendor, and as the very model and definition of corruption.... Under the light of the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation started a series of movements that will later on define modern Europe: the Scientific Revolution, the Age of Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution Modern Europe, and even the modern world, woul...

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In Renaissance Italy when succession among royalty was the form of government, the Catholic Church more specifically the manner in which the Holy Roman Pontiff was chosen mirrored that of royalty as seen through the succession of the House of Borgias becoming the Holy Pope. ...

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By itself this "Nova" may have signaled a "Nova" approach to how the heavens were viewed and Galileo may have been one of the stars of this era in triggering the explosion of investigation and philosophical teaching known as the Renaissance. ... It must be kept in mind that the Roman Catholic Church in Italy throughout this period was on the defense in response to the Protestant threat and in many ways attempted to squelch and extinguish through different means any threat to its authority. The most dangerous sources were the developing ideas and theories throughout Europe and Italy itself that...

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In the first half of the 16th century, Western Europe experienced a wide range of social, artistic and geographically political changes that created conflict within the Holy Roman Empire. This conflict is called the Protestant Reformation, a religious and political movement that gave birth to Prote...

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