HIST 1010 Chapter 10: Textbook Notes - Chapter 10
1 Dec 2011
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With the fall of constantinople to the turks in 1453, italy"s once unlimited trading empire began to shrink. City-state soon turned against city-state and by the 1490s, french armies invaded italy. *jacob burckhardt civilization of the renaissance in italy gave rise to new secular and scientific values. *period in which people began to adopt a rational and statistical approach to reality and to rediscover the worth and creativity of the individual. *most scholars agree that the renaissance was a time of transition from medieval to modern times. *medieval: fragmented feudal society with agricultural economy, church dominated thought and culture. *renaissance: growing national consciousness and political centralization, urban economy based on organized commerce and capitalism, growing lay and secular control of thought and culture, including religion. *two events coincide with the beginning of this period: the deaths of petrarch (father of humanism in: and giovanni bocaccio (author of the decameron in 1375)
