MARS 1F90 Lecture 1: MARS lecture 1 winter
2 Mar 2016
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Lecture one: the idea of the renaissance. Not easy to gure out when it began or when it ended. No one really agrees on when it was, or what it was. Looked back to the time of ancient europe, before the fall of rome. He thought it was the golden age of europe. After the middle ages, he called it the modern age (14th century) Middle ages to him was a time of decline and superstition. By studying the artists of the renaissance, he said that this was the beginning of a new energy in art, renewal, etc. Said it went back to the 13th century. Second gure to live in the renaissance that didn"t call it that. The popular modern idea of the renaissance: jacob burkhardt and the civilization of. His ideas of the renaissance still shape what we know. The renaissance was a critical period in european history. As a revival of the civilization of ancient rome.
