History of World Civilizations: Renaissance
by G
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This book uses an integrated approach to describe all aspects of Italian life during the Renaissance. The term "Renaissance" in this book refers only to Italy. In essence, the Renaissance was an economic expansion achieved by a few smart people manipulating the majority of simple people. Renaissance culture was an aristocratic culture built on the backs of the poor. The politics of the Renaissance were commercial oligarchs and military dictatorships replacing the republic. Morally, it was a pagan rebellion that corrupted the moral standards of religious theory, indulged human instincts, and used the wealth of industry and commerce as they pleased. The Renaissance restored classical culture and ended the thousand-year dominance of Eastern spirituality in Europe. It also spread the seeds of enlightenment to France, England, Germany, Flanders and Spain. Conceptual, moral and artistic trends continued to flow northward from Italy for a century. Between 1500 and 1600, all Western European countries recognized her as the mother of the new scientific, artistic and humanistic civilization.
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