Medieval

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The Renaissance was the age of creativity, experimentation, and discovery. A new age
was beginning but every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. This
new age started right after the Dark Ages. The goal of the Renaissance period was to
revive the lost wisdom, art, and culture. The humanists not only wanted to bring these
aspects of life back, but also to start reconstructing their present culture along classical
lines.
The Renaissance period took place from 1265 AD to 1633 AD. The Middle Ages
were coming to a close and a new age was beginning. Italy was at the center of intense
creativity we now call the Renaissance, meaning “rebirth”. The Italian humanists were
inspired by the classical works of Greece and Rome. The Italian humanists revived this
type of culture and took it in as a new way of looking at the world. The rediscovery of
their classical past helped to give Europeans a new sense of history as well as of their
own capabilities. Many thinkers were now turning away and becoming less occupied
with saving souls and avoiding temptation. The thinkers of this time dedicated
themselves to exploring people’s individuality and educating them in their duties to
society. This became the movement known as Humanism.
At the same time, artists celebrated the beauty of the human body, in more lifelike
paintings and sculptures, architecture, and discovering new ways to accomplish tasks.
Many great accomplishments came out of the Renaissance period. Some prime examples
are the Sistine Chapel, the plays of William Shakespeare, and the uniting of two
kingdoms to form Spain. The Renaissance Era was the beginning of creativity,
experimentation, and discovery after the Dark Ages....