THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PERIOD OF RENAISSANCE AND ABOUT THE LITERATURE OF THE SAME AGE .

1)    WRITE ABOUT THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE PERIOD OF RENAISSANCE AND ABOUT THE LITERATURE OF THE SAME AGE:-                                                                                    

  •  INTRODUCTION:-                                                                                                                                                           THE RENAISSANCE IS A PERIOD IN EUROPEAN HISTORY COVERING THE SPAN BETWEEN THE 14TH AND 17TH CENTURIES AND MARKING THE TRANSITION FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO MODERNITY THE TRADITIONAL VIEW FOCUSES MORE ON THE EARTHY MODERN ASPECTS OF THE RENAISSANCE AND ARGUES THAT IT WAS A BREAK  FROM THE PAST BUT MANY HISTORIANS TODAY FOCUS MORE ON ITS MEDIEVAL ASPECTS AND ARGUE THAT IT WAS AN EXTENSION OF THE MIDDLE AGES.

  • THE WORD"RENAISSANCE'' IS A FRENCH WORD WHICH MEANS"REBIRTH" IT REFERS PARTICULARLY TO A RENEWED INTEREST IN CLASSICAL LEARNING THE WRITINGS OF ANCIENT GREECE AND  ROME. THE THINKERS OF THIS PERIOD ALSO CALLED"HUMANISTS" BILEVED THAT THE MAN SHOULD BE THE SUBJECT OF STUDY AND NOT GOD AS THE CHURCH HAD TAUGHT DURING THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD.




  • THE PRINTING PRESS:-                                              JOHANNES GUTENBURG IS CREDITED WITH INVENTING THE FIRST PRINTING PRESS IN GERMANY AROUND 1400 BY 1476 WILLIAM CAXTON HAD HIS OWN PRINTING PRESS UP AND RUNNING IN WESTMINISTER ENGLAND.WILLIAM CAXTON WA THE PERSON WHO INTRODUCED PRINTING PRESS IN ENGLAND THE BOOKS WERE WRITTEN OUT IN LONGHAND,WHAT MEANT A VERY SLOW JOG.

  • GREAT WRITERS FROM THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD:-
  • CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE
  • SIR WALTER RALEIGH
  • ROBERT HERRICK 
  • ANDREW MARVELL 
  • WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 
  • JOHN DONNE 
  • BEN JONSON
  • FRANCIS BACON
  • JOHN MILTON
  • EDMUND SPENSER
  • RICHARD LOVELACE

               THERE IS A CONSENSUS THAT THE RENAISSANCE BEGAN IN FLORENCE ITALY IN THE 14TH CENTURY MOST LIKELY DUE TO THE CITY THE RENAISSANCE ENCOMAPASSED THE FLOWERING OF LATIN LANGUAGES  CHANGE IN ARTISTIC STYLE AND GRADUAL WIDSREAD EDUCATIONAL REFORM'
  • RELIGION WAS CENTERAL TO LIFE IN RENAISSANCE ENGLAND OFFICIAL EVERY ONE WAS CHRISTAN 1517 NEW CAMPAIN FOR ECCLESIASTICAL REFORM CAME TO A HEAD WHEN MARTIN LUTHER IN RENASSANCE EUROPE FAITH CHRISTINITY CO-EXISTED WITH A MONARCHS AND RELIGIOUS LEADERS TOOK MAGIC SERIOUSLY.RENAISSANCE SOCIETY WAS HIERACGHICAL AND PATRIARCHAL AT THE TOP OF THE  HIERARCHY WAS THE MONCLARCH THE REMAINDER OF SOCIETY WAS DIVIDED INTO FOUR MAIN GROUPS OF DESCEN DING SOCIALSTANUS (NOBLES GENTRY CITIZENS AND TRADESMEN AND PEASANTS OR SCRVANTS).
  • IN THE RENAISSANCE GENDER DIFFERENCE WAS ACCEPTED MEN WER EXPECTED TO BE ACTIVE IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE AND AND TO PROVIDE FOR AND PROTECT THEIR FAMILIES AND WOMEN WERE ENCURGED TO REMAIN AT HOME NURTURING AND SERVING THEIR LOVED ONES MARRAIAGE WAS LOWER THAN IN MORDEN BRITAIN AND DIFFERENT FOR MAN AND WOMEN GIRLS MIGHT MARRY AND BOYS AT BUT MOST PEOPLE UNTIL THEY WERE IN THEIR LATE TWENTIES.

  • MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF RENAISSANCE                                                                                      
  • THE WORD "RENAISSANCE"MEANS REBIRTH IT IS A TERM APPLIER ROUGHLY TO THE PERIOYUD IN EUROPEAN HISTORY THAT FOLLOWED MIDDLE AGE.


  1. HUMANISM:-  


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  • HUMANISM REFERS TO GLORIFYING THE HUMAN ELEMENTS IN MAN AS OPPOSED TO THE SUPERNATYRAL OR DIVINE ON ONE HAND AND THE ANIMAL ON THE OTHER WITH REGAD TO THE RENAISSANCE EFFECT OR USE IT APPLIED TO THOSE SCHOLARS WHO PURSUED THE STUDIES THAT HELPED TO PRODUCE THE CIVILIZED MAN HUMANISM IN GERNERAL IS THE ATTITUDE THATE EMPHASIZES THE DIGINITY AND WORTH OF THE INDIVIDUAL A BASIC PREMISE OF HUMANISM IS THAT PEOPLE ARE THMSELVES THE CAPACITY FOR TRUTH AND GOODNESS.
 2. ART:-   
RENAISSANCE ART MARKS A CULTURAL REBIRTH AT THE CLOSE OF THE MIDDLE AGES AND RISE OF THE MODERN WORLD .ONE OF THE DISTINGUISHING FEATURES OF RENAISSANCE ART WAS ITS DEVLOPMENT OF HIGHLY REALISTIC LINER PERSPECTIVE GIOTTO DI BONDONE (1267-1337) IS CREDITED WITH  FIRST TREATING A PAINTING AS A WINDOW IN TO SPACE BUT IT WAS NOT UNTILE THE DEMONSTRATIONS OF ARCHITECT FILIPPO BRUNELLESCHI(1377-1446) AND THE SUBSEQUENT WRITINGS OF LEON BATTISTA AIBERTI (1404-1472) THAT PERSPECTIVE WAS FORMALIZED AS AN ARTISTIC TECHNIQUE. THE DEVLOPMENT OF PERSPECTIVE WAS PART OF A WIDER TREND TOWARDS REALISM IN THE ARTS PAINTERS DEVLOPMENT OTHER TECHNIQUES, STUDY  LIGHT, SHADOW AND FAMOUSLY IN THE CASE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI, HUMAN 
 AND TOMY.                                                                                                                                          3.SCIENCE :-                                                                                                                                                            THE REDISCOVERY OF ANCIENT TEXTS AND THE INVENTION OF PRINTING DEMOCRATIZED LEARNING AND ALLOWED A FASTER PROPAGATION OF MORE WIDELY AISTRIBUTED IDEAS IN THE FIRST PERIOD OF THE ITALIAN REANAISSANCE HUMANISTS FAVOURED THE STUDY OF HUMANISTS FAVOURED THE STUDY OF HUMANITIES OVER NATURAL PHILOSOPHY OR APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND THEIR REVERENCE FOR CLASSICAL SOURCES FURTHER ENSHRINED THE ARISTOTELIAN AND PTOLEMAIC VIEW OF THE UNIVERSE. WRITING AROUND 1450 NICHOLAS CUSANUS WWORLDVIEW OF COPERIEUS  BUT IN A PHILOSOPHICAL FASHION SCIENCE AND ART WERE INTERMINGLED IN THE EARLY RENAISSANCE WITH POLYMATH ARTISTS SUCH AS LEONARELO  DA VINCI MAKING OBSERVATIONAL DROWINGS OF ANATOMY AND NATURE                              

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