Current research on the Renaissance has emphasized the need to look again at the original texts, documents and artefacts which, taken together, constitute the p

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Writing about the Renaissance can be a daunting task. Not only do scholars disagree on what the Renaissance is, but they also disagree on whether or not it even

The word renaissance means "rebirth," and the most obvious example of this phenomenon was the regeneration of Europe's classical Roman roots. The Renaissance be

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