The Italian and northern Renaissance / edited by Kelly Roscoe. - First edition. - New York : Britannica Educational Publishing in association with Rosen Educational Services, 2018. 2018 - 1 online resource (104 pages) : illustrations (some color), portraits. - Power and religion in medieval and Renaissance times Gale eBooks . - Power and religion in medieval and Renaissance times. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Urban growth and wars of expansion -- Italian humanism -- Renaissance thought -- The northern Renaissance -- Renaissance science and technology -- Conclusion -- Glossary.

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 landscape of Europe.

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Renaissance--Italy.
Renaissance--Europe, Northern.


Italy--Intellectual life--1268-1559.
Europe, Northern--Intellectual life.

DG445 / .I74 2018