During theMiddle Ages, a period that took place between the fall of ancient Rome in 476 A.D. and the beginning of the 14th century, Europeans made few advances in science and art. Also known as the “Dark Ages,” the era is often branded as a time of war, ignorance, famine andpande...
Known as a period of rebirth and moving from darkness to enlightenment, it started as a cultural movement in Italy in the Late Medieval period and later spread to the rest of Europe. During this time, there was a rediscovery of philosophy, art and literature influenced by the Ancient Romans...
The Renaissance was a period in European civilization that immediately followed the Middle Ages and reached its height in the 15th century. It is conventionally held to have been characterized by a surge of interest in Classical scholarship and values. T
His militant poem “If We Must Die” (1919) is one of the most-quoted works of African American literature of this time period. Alain LockeCourtesy of Howard University, Washington, D.C.The movement was popularized by African American philosopher Alain Locke in The New Negro (1925), an ...
Polyphony (two independent melody lines playing at once) was also the main musical texture of the style period. Lastly, the Renaissance Era was heavily influenced by the Catholic Church, and much of the music written during that time was written specifically for masses and sacred works....
The Harlem Renaissance period emerged after WWI, from the Great Migration until the Great Depression. It was a time when African-Americans developed and embraced their own literature, music, theatre, visual arts, and the negro movement. Historians suggest that this era marked the rebirth and a ...
in Italy. Others use the date of 1400 as a line of demarcation. In any event, it can safely be stated that the Early Renaissance began sometime around the second half of the 14th century. The Early Renaissance eventually gave way to theHigh Renaissanceperiod sometime around the year 1495....
It has been impossible to avoid an air or superficiality, and the repetition of facts known to every schoolboy, in this sketch of so complicated a subject as the Renaissance,--embracing many nations, a great variety of topics, and an indefinite period of time. Yet no other treatment was po...
The English historiography during theRenaissancetime fills the transformation and the development. 文艺复兴时期的英国史学充满变革和发展. 期刊摘选 GreatRenaissanceof Chinese Nation is the aim and ideality pursued by Chinese people. 实现中华民族的伟大复兴是中国人民孜孜以求的目标和理想. ...
period. The degree of diffusion of Renaissance culture in different countries varied greatly. Italy was the country where urban life was most developed at the time and where the economic and political influence of the feudal nobles had been undermined early and considerably, and where in the 13th...