Understanding Renaissance

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This paper provides an explanation for Renaissance as a word and as an age, illustrating with various examples and images how the rebirth of humanity occurred after the dogmatism and the oppression of the Middle Ages.

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"What is Renaissance as a word and as an age? Renaissance is the French word for "rebirth" (Civilization in the West, p. 324). As an age, it's the rebirth of humanity after the dogmatism and the opression of the Middle Ages. Arts, ideas, sciences which have been paused under the influence of the Church are reborn from its ashes in the Classical Age and they are all united within the ideals of humanity and self-awareness. Despite the millions that are lost because of Black Death in the period, new technics were developed in every form of art, new ideas were put forward and a new approach towards religion emerged. Renaissance can be described as a period of diverge from dogmatism and a step towards questioning and self-awareness."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Civilization in the West. Kishlansky, Geary, O'Brien. Longman 6th edition.
• Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies, edited by Rosalind Brown-Grant (London: Penguin, 1999): 5-11.
• Desiderius Erasmus, The Praise of Folly and Other Writings, edited by Robert M. Adams (London and New York: W.W.Norton, 1989): 3-5.
• Leonardo's Vitruvian Man. (2002). Stanford University. Retrieved January 6, 2007 from http://leonardodavinci.stanford.edu/submissions/clabaugh/history/leonardo.html

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