The Renaissance is a period in Europe which lasted from the 14th to the 17th century. It is considered the bridge between the Middle Ages and modern history.
Everything started as a cultural movement in Italy and then spread to the rest of Europe, marking the beginning of the Early Modern Age.
The Renaissance's intellectual basis was humanism, derived from the rediscovery of classical Greek philosophy,
A) HUMANISM:
DEFINITION: it was the philosophical and cultural movement that spread through Europe in the 15th and early 16th centuries.
CHARACTERISTICS:
.- Anthropocentrism
.- Using of reason and experience
.- Curiosity about the physical and spiritual world
.- Inspiration in the cultural inheritance of Antiquity: Greece and Rome.
MAIN REPRESENTATIVES:
.- Thomas More
.- Erasmus of Rotterdam.
SPREAD OF HUMANISM:
.- Invention of printing press
.- Academies
.- Universities
.- The humanists travelled and exchanged ideas

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