HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Renaissance, Maimonides, Trotula
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The spread of knowledge in the medieval world. Exchange of goods, biological items such as people, ideas. Exchange of intellectual knowledge, science, technology and philosophical knowledge. Italian renaissance people called the medieval times the dark ages, to compare their enlightenment to the past. Missionaries with the expansion of islam and christianity and the spread of many religions along with philosophy and ideas. People"s ways of transportation, connected different parts of europe because rome was the center. They established monasteries for religion and center for knowledge. Communicated with the church and each other through trade. Monks were engaged in many works, and monasteries were exchanging agricultural techniques. (such as grapes and became center for wine making) They would also exchange written texts, a scroll they would make copies and send it to other monasteries which later turned into a system of a library. They made the copies of book through scriptorium. (which had mistakes, commentary, personal interpretations and scribbles)
