The Renaissance and the Reformation

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This paper provides a brief insight into the renaissance period which began as a cultural movement in fifteenth-century Italy and was known as an age of expansion, of the development of broad humanistic and philosophical thought. It also examines the period of the reformation, which in contrast was a collapse of many religious, political and philosophical schools of thought where nations desperate to break away from the shackles of Rome through the introduction of Protestantism and other changes. It analyzes how the renaissance was an age of change, of humanism that fairly broke the back of Christianity through corruption and dilution and how the reformation was a snap back against those changes and a return to biblical literalism.

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"The Renaissance was a period of enormous change and refinement in the human condition in Europe. It is the period that marks the shift from Medieval to modern times. First, the Renaissance was marked by a period of interest in humanism. The humanists believed that each individual person had a unique significance to society. This belief structure led to fundamental changes in art, literature, philosophy, the greatest of these changes occurring initially in Italy. It was during the Renaissance that the humanism that extended individuality to people also spread to nations and the collapse of the Emperor systems."

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