Art and literature -- Economics and society -- Politics and war -- Religion and papacy -- Northern Renaissance.
This work contains excerpts from documents relating to the period of European history known as the Renaissance. In the 14th century, the rise of humanism, a philosophy based on the study of the languages, literature, and material culture of ancient Greece and Rome, led to a sense of revitalization and renewal among the city-states of northern Italy and spread to parts of northern Europe.