TY  - BOOK
AU  - Roscoe,Kelly
AU  - Day,Meredith
TI  - The Italian and Northern Renaissance
T2  - Power and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Times
SN  - 9781680486285
AV  - DG445 .I835 2017
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Chicago, IL
PB  - Britannica Educational Publishing
KW  - Renaissance
KW  - Italy
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Europe, Northern
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1; Urban Growth And Wars Of Expansion; Civic Institutions; Civic Strife and One-Man Rule; Guelfs and Ghibellines; New Functions of the City-State; Wars of Expansion; Chapter 2; Italian Humanism; Literacy and Language; The Humanities; Petrarch; Classical Scholarship; Chapter 3; Renaissance Thought; Machiavelli and The Prince; The Dominance of Florence; Assessing Machiavelli; Guicciardini and The History of Italy; Chapter 4; The Northern Renaissance; The Italian Wars; Centralized Monarchies and Economic Growth; Northern HumanismChristian Mystics; The Growth of Vernacular Literature; Chapter 5; Renaissance Science And Technology; Science in Medieval Times; The Heliocentric System; Mathematics; Renaissance Man; Warfare; The Printing Press; Conclusion; Glossary; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover; 2; b
N2  - The modern period of history is often considered to have begun with the Renaissance, one of the rare periods of genius in the world's history. This volume traces the Renaissance from its beginnings in Italy in the fourteenth century to its spread across the rest of Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Along with the rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman writing, the Renaissance represented a new age in the fields of science, literature, religion, politics, and many others. Readers will learn about the great thinkers of their era and how their beliefs radically changed the landsc
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