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Modern historians refereed these changes as Renaissance. In this lesson we will come to know about renaissance, its impact, causes and changes occurred. We also know the different scholars who played an important role in these changes.
v SOURCES
Ø There is a lot of material in the form of documents, printed books, paintings, sculptures, buildings, textiles etc.
Ø These are preserved in archives, art galleries and museums in Europe and America.
v RENAISSANCE
Ø The word renaissance is taken from the French word which means rebirth. So, renaissance referred as the changing cultural tradition occurred in Europe from Italy during 14 to 17th century in sphere of art, literature, architecture, and created awareness among the people.
Ø A Swiss scholar – Jacob Burckhardt describe these changes in his book 'The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy'.
v CHNAGES OCCURRED IN EUROPE
Ø During 14 to 17th century number of towns had grown in different countries. It developed the urban culture.
Ø The people of towns started to think that they were more civilised than the people of villages. The rich and aristocratic class began to patronise artists and writers in the towns.
Answer: here is a vast amount of material on European history from
the fourteenth century – documents, printed books, paintings,
sculptures, buildings, textiles. Much of this has been carefully
preserved in archives, art galleries and museums in Europe
and America.
From the nineteenth century, historians used the term
‘Renaissance’ (literally, rebirth) to describe the cultural
changes of this period. The historian who emphasised these
most was a Swiss scholar – Jacob Burckhardt (1818–97) of
the University of Basle in Switzerland. He was a student
of the German historian Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886).
Ranke had taught him that the primary concern of the
historian was to write about states and politics using papers
and files of government departments. Burckhardt was
dissatisfied with these very limited goals that his master had
set out for him. To him politics was not the be-all and endall in history writing. History was as much concerned with
culture as with politics.
In 1860, he wrote a book called The Civilisation of the
Renaissance in Italy, in which he called his readers’ attention
to literature, architecture and painting to tell the story of how
a new ‘humanist’ culture had flowered in Italian towns from
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