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  2. Renaissance - Wikipedia

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    The Renaissance (UK: / r ɪ ˈ n eɪ s ən s / rin-AY-sənss, US: / ˈ r ɛ n ə s ɑː n s / ⓘ REN-ə-sahnss) [1] [2] [a] is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.

  3. Italian Renaissance - Wikipedia

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    The nature of the Renaissance also changed in the late 15th century. The Renaissance ideal was fully adopted by the ruling classes and the aristocracy. In the early Renaissance artists were seen as craftsmen with little prestige or recognition. By the later Renaissance, the top figures wielded great influence and could charge great fees.

  4. Renaissance of the 12th century - Wikipedia

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    The Renaissance of the 12th century was a period of many changes at the outset of the High Middle Ages. It included social , political and economic transformations, and an intellectual revitalization of Western Europe with strong philosophical and scientific roots.

  5. Medieval renaissances - Wikipedia

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    Jean-Jacques Ampère was the first writer to speak of a medieval renaissance. The term 'renaissance' was first used as a name for a period in medieval history in the 1830s, with the birth of medieval studies. It was coined by Jean-Jacques Ampère. Charles H. Haskins published The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century in 1927

  6. English Renaissance - Wikipedia

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    The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England during the late 15th, 16th and early 17th centuries. [1] It is associated with the pan-European Renaissance that is usually regarded as beginning in Italy in the late 14th century.

  7. Italian Wars - Wikipedia

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    Italian Renaissance (14th–16th c.) Italian Wars (1494–1559) Catholic revival (1545–1648) Mid-16th c. to early 19th c. Napoleonic Italy (1801–1814) Republic ...

  8. Were these Renaissance masterpieces some of the world ... - AOL

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    What did it mean to go viral at the height of the Renaissance? In Northern Belgium, which underwent a meteoric socioeconomic boom between the 15th and 18th centuries, it was through art, as a ...

  9. Outline of the Renaissance - Wikipedia

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    Renaissance – cultural movement that spanned roughly the 14th to the 17th century, beginning in Italy in the Late Middle Ages and later spreading to the rest of Europe. The term is also used more loosely to refer to the historical era , but since the changes of the Renaissance were not uniform across Europe, this is a general use of the term.