DRAM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Middle Ages, The Exile, Verisimilitude
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Social revolution in europe: the rise of the secular state and the market. The merchant class became the key economic figure. Renaissance the religious figures were treated differently than the middle ages. They were painted as human beings whom which we can identify. Major movement in renais- sance literature was humanism. Humanism humanists focused on people rather than gods. They studies and imitated the greek and romans. Neoclassicism believed they were formulating rules that would force dramatists to imi- tate the greeks and romans, and they insisted that their ideals were derived from ex- amination of roman and greek models and interpretations of aristotle and horace. Re- creation of roman and greek models in art , architecture, music, dance, drama, educa- tion and philosophy. Scientific invention: galileo (astronomer), kepler (mathematician), copernicus (polish scientist), all proved that the sun was the center of the solar system.