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renaissance
in
Sophie's World
(Edited)

We ought to cover the Renaissance and the seventeenth century as well.
Chpt 15

Renaissance = a period of European history known for a revival of intellectual and artistic achievement (14th through mid-17th centuries)
The expression arose during the Renaissance.
Chpt 15
The Dark Ages, as they were also called, were seen then as one interminable thousand-year-long night which had settled over Europe between antiquity and the Renaissance.
Chpt 15
And now we see the beginning of the Renaissance, the 'rebirth' of antique culture.
Chpt 15
I shall summon you to a meeting on the Renaissance.
Chpt 15
The Renaissance O divine lineage in mortal guise It was just twelve when Sophie reached Joanna's front gate, out of breath with running.
Chpt 16
But at last comes the Renaissance; the long school-day is over.
Chpt 16
We could say that the Renaissance is Europe's fifteenth birthday!
Chpt 16
If she was not much mistaken, this was a typical Renaissance costume.
Chpt 16
Today I shall tell you about the Renaissance.
Chpt 16
Thus the basis was created for two powerful upheavals in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, namely, the Renaissance and the Reformation.
Chpt 16
By the Renaissance we mean the rich cultural development that began in the late fourteenth century.
Chpt 16
Didn't you tell me that the word 'renaissance' meant rebirth?
Chpt 16 *

renaissance = a revival of learning and culture
We also speak of Renaissance humanism, since now, after the long Dark Ages in which every aspect of life was seen through divine light, everything once again revolved around man.
Chpt 16

Renaissance = a period of European history known for a revival of intellectual and artistic achievement (14th through mid-17th centuries)
But before we take a closer look at the ideas of Renaissance humanism, we must say a little about the political and cultural background of the Renaissance.
Chpt 16
But before we take a closer look at the ideas of Renaissance humanism, we must say a little about the political and cultural background of the Renaissance.
Chpt 16
And these three discoveries—the compass, firearms, and the printing press—were essential preconditions for this new period we call the Renaissance.
Chpt 16
Printing played an important part in spreading the Renaissance humanists' new ideas.
Chpt 16
But you could say that a process started in the Renaissance finally brought people to the moon.
Chpt 16
In the same way, the Renaissance middle class began to break away from the feudal lords and the power of the church.
Chpt 16
That gives you some background on the Renaissance.
Chpt 16
Above all else, the Renaissance resulted in a new view of mankind.
Chpt 16
The humanism of the Renaissance brought a new belief in man and his worth, in striking contrast to the biased medieval emphasis on the sinful nature of man.
Chpt 16
One of the central figures of the Renaissance was Marsilio Ficino, who exclaimed: 'Know thyself, O divine lineage in mortal guise!'
Chpt 16
The humanists of the Renaissance took as their point of departure man himself.
Chpt 16
But Renaissance humanism was to an even greater extent characterized by individualism.
Chpt 16
And the Renaissance humanists lost their restraint?
Chpt 16
The Renaissance humanists saw it as their cultural duty to restore Rome: first and foremost, to begin the construction of the great St. Peter's Church over the grave of Peter the Apostle.
Chpt 16
Many great artists of the Renaissance took part in this building project, the greatest in the world.
Chpt 16
It was also significant that the Renaissance brought with it a new view of nature.
Chpt 16
During the Renaissance, what we call anti-humanism flourished as well.
Chpt 16
During the Renaissance there was a tremendous thirst for trying witches, burning heretics, magic and superstition, bloody religious wars—and not least, the brutal conquest of America.
Chpt 16
This is not least true of our next key phrase, a new scientific method, another Renaissance innovation which I will tell you about.
Chpt 16
But a precondition for all the technical development that took place after the Renaissance was the new scientific method.
Chpt 16
The technical revolution that began in the Renaissance led to the spinning jenny and to unemployment, to medicines and new diseases, to the improved efficiency of agriculture and the impoverishment of the environment, to practical appliances such as the washing machine and the refrigerator and pollution and industrial waste.
Chpt 16
Ever since the Renaissance, mankind has been more than just part of creation.
Chpt 16
Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.
Chpt 16
But there were those even in the Renaissance who said that every single one of us now had a more central position than before.
Chpt 16
The Renaissance resulted in a new religiosity.
Chpt 16
Then the Renaissance arrived with its new view of man.
Chpt 16
But during the Renaissance, the Bible was translated from Hebrew and Greek into national languages.
Chpt 16
With this slogan Luther wished to return to the 'source' of Christianity, just as the Renaissance humanists had wanted to turn to the ancient sources of art and culture.
Chpt 16
Yes and no. A characteristic Renaissance feature was his emphasis on the individual and the individual's personal relationship to God.
Chpt 16
Allowing the language of the people to take precedence over Latin was also a characteristic Renaissance feature.
Chpt 16
She had written reams on the Renaissance and the scientific breakthrough, the new view of nature and Francis Bacon, who had said that knowledge was power.
Chpt 17 *
Irregularity was typical of Baroque art, which was much richer in highly contrastive forms than the plainer and more harmonious Renaissance art.
Chpt 17
On the one hand there was the Renaissance's unremitting optimism—and on the other hand there were the many who sought the opposite extreme in a life of religious seclusion and self-denial.
Chpt 17
He wrote his greatest plays around the year 1600, so he stands with one foot in the Renaissance and the other in the Baroque.
Chpt 17
Following the heady rediscovery of man and nature in the Renaissance, the need to assemble contemporary thought into one coherent philosophical system again presented itself.
Chpt 18
The Enlightenment ...from the way needles are made to the way cannons are founded Hilde had just begun the chapter on the Renaissance when she heard her mother come in the front door.
Chpt 23

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(1) (renaissance as in: a renaissance)
a revival or renewed interest in something
(2) (Renaissance as in: The Renaissance)
the period of European history known for a revival of intellectual and artistic achievement (14th through mid-17th centuries)

Named as an indication of a rebirth of certain classical ideas that had long been lost to Europe. It has been argued that the movement was strongly influenced by the rediscovery of ancient texts that had been forgotten by Western civilization, but were preserved in some monastic libraries and in the Islamic world, and the translations of Greek and Arabic texts into Latin.

Some historians have suggested that the term Renaissance is loaded and are suggesting the term Early Modern to replace it -- as Middle Ages has largely replaced Dark Ages for the period that preceded the Renaissance.
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Less commonly, Renaissance can be used as part of a proper noun referring to a period of revival or renewed interest other than the European Renaissance.

renaissance in Sophie's World (Edited)

renaissance
in
Sophie's World
(Edited)