enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Renaissance - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance

    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

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Renaissance

    Haskins was one of the leading scholars in this school of thought, and it was his (along with several others) belief that the building blocks for the Italian Renaissance were all laid during the Middle Ages, calling on the rise of towns and bureaucratic states in the late 11th century as proof of the significance of this "pre-renaissance." The ...

  4. Classical education in the Western world - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_education_in_the...

    The Renaissance humanists believed that education should prepare individuals for public life and civic responsibility, a belief that has persisted in various forms throughout Western educational history. The classical emphasis on rhetoric and moral philosophy has informed the development of educational systems that prioritize the formation of ...

  5. Jacob Burckhardt - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Burckhardt

    The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy was the most influential interpretation of the Italian Renaissance in the 19th century and is still widely read. In connection with this work Burckhardt may have been the first historian to use the term " modernity " in a clearly defined, academic context. [ 7 ]

  6. Renaissance humanism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_humanism

    Renaissance humanism is a worldview centered on the nature and importance of humanity that emerged from the study of Classical antiquity.. Renaissance humanists sought to create a citizenry able to speak and write with eloquence and clarity, and thus capable of engaging in the civic life of their communities and persuading others to virtuous and prudent actions.

  7. Renaissance of the 12th century - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_of_the_12th...

    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.

  8. French Renaissance - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Renaissance

    The French Renaissance was the cultural and artistic movement in France between the 15th and early 17th centuries. The period is associated with the pan-European [1] Renaissance, a word first used by the French historian Jules Michelet to define the artistic and cultural "rebirth" of Europe.

  9. Classicism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classicism

    The classicism of the Renaissance led to, and gave way to, a different sense of what was "classical" in the 16th and 17th centuries. In this period, classicism took on more overtly structural overtones of orderliness, predictability, the use of geometry and grids, the importance of rigorous discipline and pedagogy, as well as the formation of ...