HIST-338 Lecture 14: The Medieval Renaissance
28 Nov 2020
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Renaissance europe still appears, in its early stages at least, as a recognizably medieval place: roger bacon would have felt very much at ease discussing with the fifteenth-century. Bacon might even have bested the italian in the debate. Renaissance papal court. more accurate to describe the early renaissance as the medieval world with a difference, rather than as a different world altogether. Still, renaissance life was more than mere climactic medievalism. Of these florence, milan, and venice still throve as the larger states. Genoa and pisa were falling on rather hard times but were still highly influential. Smaller upstarts like mantua, verona, siena, and ferrara had also emerged as forceful entities. The political map, in other words, had altered somewhat in terms of the relative strengths weaknesses of the states, but statecraft itself had not changed significantly from what it had been in the fourteenth or even the thirteenth century.
