CORE-UA 400 Lecture 16: 16 - Bridge 2
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What to call it: renaissance (looking back, renaissance, the term we will use, designates a period in. European intellectual and artistic culture with an eye toward the. Rebirth of classical learning: early modern (looking forward, now it"s more generally known as the early modern period, with the assumption that the same period represents the beginning of modernity. Where: the northern renaissance will center on spain, portugal, england and. Humanism: that"s very likely the one word you may associate with the renaissance, it has nothing to do with being humane, kind to animals or valuing the. Greek: the ancient greek colony in sicily meant that there was a greek-speaking population in the renaissance. Aristotle"s poetics was lost to the western world for a long time. It was available in the middle ages and early renaissance only through a latin translation of an. One of the works rediscovered in the renaissance was by the roman vitruvius"s.