Humanism - Renaissance (Part 4)
Humanism was a 14th and 15th Century intellectual movement that revolved around the idea of the ind…
Topic: Renaissance
A Church in Crisis - Renaissance (Part 3)
At the start of the 16th century Italy was dominated by war. Major powers of Europe vied for the co…
Political Power of the Merchant Class- Renaissance (Part 2)
Italy was less a united entity in the late Middle Ages and more a pastiche of fortune and misfortun…
Rise of the City States in Italy - Renaissance (Part 1)
In the early 14th Century, a new way of thinking stirred in the streets of prosperous Florence. Gra…
Charlemagne (Part 2/2) - The Carolingian Renaissance
Emperor Charlemagne was the father of the great European transformation known as the Carolingian Re…