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  2. Renaissance - Wikipedia

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    The Renaissance has a long and complex historiography, and in line with general skepticism of discrete periodizations, there has been much debate among historians reacting to the 19th-century glorification of the "Renaissance" and individual cultural heroes as "Renaissance men", questioning the usefulness of Renaissance as a term and as a ...

  3. 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

  4. 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.

  5. Timeline of Italian history - Wikipedia

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    1700 BC: Terramare culture. Recent archeology, along with ancient Greek accounts, links this culture to the Etruscans. 1500 BC: Apennine culture. 1300 BC: Canegrate culture. 1200 BC: Proto-Villanovan culture appears in Italy. It is likely a southern extension of the Urnfield culture. This is possibly the introduction of Italic peoples into the ...

  6. High Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    The High Middle Ages, or High Medieval Period, was the period of European history that lasted from AD 1000 to 1300. The High Middle Ages were preceded by the Early Middle Ages and followed by the Late Middle Ages, which ended around AD 1500 (by historiographical convention).

  7. Historical urban community sizes - Wikipedia

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    1300 1350 Angkor: Cambodia 200,000 [67] ... Renaissance: 1400–1599 City 1400 1450 1500 1550 ... 1700 1750 1800 1825 1850 1875 Aachen:

  8. Outline of the history of Western civilization - Wikipedia

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    Italian Renaissance – The Italian Renaissance was the earliest manifestation of the general European Renaissance, a period of great cultural change and achievement that began in Italy around the end of the 13th century and lasted until the 16th century, marking the transition between Medieval and Early Modern Europe.

  9. Renaissance architecture - Wikipedia

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    Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 15th and ... In Classical Influences on European Culture A.D. 1500–1700, 335 ...