Discuss the salient features of Renaissance. Answer in 250 words
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The Renaissance in English literature propelled poetry and theatrical drama to new heights. The Renaissance is a French word which means re-birth, revival or re-awakening. The Renaissance was both a revival of ancient classical mythology, literature and culture as well as a re-awakening of the human mind, after the long sleep of the dark Middle Ages, to the wonder, the glory and the beauty of the human body and the world of nature. “It was a re-discovery by mankind of himself and of the world.” In the words of the M.H. Abrahams Renaissance is “the birth of the modern world out of the ashes of the dark ages.” Renaissance began with the fall of the Constantinople in 1453. Mohamad-II, the sultan of the Ottoman Turks and a crusader defeated the Christians in 1453 and occupied Constantinople. It was the capital of Byzantine Empire and the center of classical learning. The scholars of ancient learning fled away to Italy and different other countries with their books and knowledge. They tried to spread their knowledge there. This revival of the classical knowledge is called Renaissance. Its salient features are– curiosity about more knowledge, desire for unlimited wealth and power, love of adventures, own country, beauty, humanism and the past.
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The Renaissance is a period in
European history, covering the span between the 14th and 17th centuries and
marking the transition from the Middle Ages to modernity. The traditional
view focuses more on the early modern aspects of the Renaissance and argues
that it was a break from the past, but many historians today focus more on its
medieval aspects and argue that it was an extension of the middle ages.
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The intellectual basis of the Renaissance was its version of humanism, derived
from the concept of Roman Humanitas and the rediscovery of classical Greek
philosophy, such as that of Protagoras, who said that "Man is the measure of
all things." This new thinking became manifest in art, architecture, politics,
science and literature. Early examples were the development of perspective in
oil painting and the recycled knowledge of how to make concrete. Although the
invention of metal movable type sped the dissemination of ideas from the later
15th century, the changes of the Renaissance were not uniformly experienced
across Europe: the very first traces appear in Italy as early as the late 13th
century, in particular with the writings of Dante and the paintings of Giotto.
As a cultural movement, the Renaissance encompassed innovative flowering of
Latin and vernacular literatures, beginning with the 14th-century resurgence of
learning based on classical sources, which contemporaries credited to
Petrarch; the development of linear perspective and other techniques of
rendering a more natural reality in painting; and gradual but widespread
educational reform. In politics, the Renaissance contributed to the
development of the customs and conventions of diplomacy, and in science to an increased reliance on observation and
inductive reasoning. Although the Renaissance saw revolutions in many intellectual pursuits, as well as social and political
upheaval, it is perhaps best known for its artistic developments and the contributions of such polymaths as Leonardo da
Vinci and Michelangelo, who inspired the term "Renaissance man".
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The Renaissance began in the 14th century in Florence, Italy.
[6] Various theories have been proposed to account for its
origins and characteristics, focusing on a variety of factors including the social and civic peculiarities of Florence at the
time: its political structure, the patronage of its dominant family, the Medici,
[7][8] and the migration of Greek scholars and
their texts to Italy following the Fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks.
[9][10][11] Other major centres were northern
Italian city-states such as Venice, Genoa, Milan, Bologna, and finally Rome during the Renaissance Papacy