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Renaissance
The Renaissance is the transformative cultural, intellectual, and artistic movement that flourished primarily in Italy between approximately 1400 and 1600 before spreading across Europe, fundamentally reorienting Western civilisation's relationship with knowledge, beauty, and human potential.
Overview
The movement's defining impulse was a deliberate recovery and reinterpretation of classical Greek and Roman thought, literature, and aesthetics as a foundation for new creative and intellectual endeavour. Leonardo da Vinci, Petrarch, Erasmus, and Machiavelli each exemplify the humanist shift: theological authority gave way to a perspective that placed human experience, reason, and individual achievement at the centre of inquiry.
Why it matters
The Renaissance revived Platonic and Stoic philosophy and seeded the conditions for early modern rationalism; in political thought it introduced secular frameworks for analysing power that anticipate modern political science. Renaissance empiricism and anatomical investigation by Vesalius and Leonardo helped dismantle inherited Aristotelian natural philosophy and enabled the Scientific Revolution.
Where it leads
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