MARS 1F90 Lecture Notes - Giovanni Boccaccio, Jacob Burckhardt, Petrarch
18 Apr 2012
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Piero de "medici portrait bust - an icon of the renaissance. It"s called the renaissance because of different periods, to distinguish the uniques of each period. The renaissance is unique because it was the first period in western history in which the people who lived in that time thought of themselves as living in a different period/new age, they would call it a unique/different time. Divvided it into different parts ancient times, the middle ages and the modern period (the. The name renaissance became popular in the 19th century. Was the renaissance really that much different from the middle ages? (a cultural movement) Establishing the chronology of the renaissance ( began somewhere int he middle of the 14th century, somewhere in italy. ) Began approxmiately the 1450"s and ended sometime around 1650, over laps with late middle ages. Its unlike the late middle ages because of its cultue instead of just history. It is the founder of renaissance studies.
