The Renaissance
Subtitle: from beginning to end
By: Henry Freeman
Publisher: Hourly History Limited
Published: 2016
Place of publication: San Bernardino, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 43
ISBN-13: 9781532873621
Subjects: Renaissance; Renaissance Art; Church history; Middle Ages
Description: "During the Middle Ages, the nations of Europe forged new identities that moved them away from the lost glory of the Roman Empire into their own ethnicity. The experience of maturation was often clumsy and out of step, an evolutionary process that saw the nation's developing at their own pace as they struggled to replace the protection of Rome with their own home-grown strength. What the nations, one they were ready to be described in that manner, did have was the Roman Catholic Church, which defined itself as the spiritual protector of Christian believers. But the dutiful Christians of the Middle Ages who sought orthodoxy and for the most part obeyed the papal rules underwent a change when the middle Ages ended. The Renaissance, or rebirth, was a period of time when Europeans began to question what they had been told was sacrosanct. Through art, inventions, science, literature, and theology, the separate nations of the European continent sought answers that the Roman Catholic Church was unwilling, or perhaps unable, to offer." --From back cover.
Table of contents: title: The rebirth of Europe; title: The Italian Renaissance; title: The French Renaissance; title: The Spanish Renaissance; title: The German Renaissance; title: The low countries Renaissance; title: The English Renaissance; title: How to be dragons: exploring the unknown.