How the Renaissance Began

What inspired the creative impulses that we associate with the Italian Renaissance? The roots of many features of the Italian Renaissance can be found in a world of commerce, politics, faith, and culture that emerged during the Middle Ages. The world before and immediately after the arrival of plague in western Europe in 1347-48–shaped by ambitious merchants, a papacy absent from Rome, new experiments in politics– gave birth to a society that would ultimately see itself as being “reborn” in some fundamental sense at the dawn of an era that came to be known as the Renaissance. Here, Stanford history professor Paula Findlen presented "How the Renaissance Began” during the Humanities West 2015 Dawn of the Italian Renaissance program.

[fabiantorres]

Thank you Paula Findlen, I hope you see this note, and know that your work is noticed. What an excellent story teller you are.

[Lemonbowl]

Amazing that this information is just available to us, for free

[USA_]

One of the best lectures I've seen in a while 😊🇺🇲👍🗽💪❤️

[knny]

Thank you, Stanford, for sharing this excellent talk. I enjoyed it a lot.

[z.a.hayder]

It’s the solid lecture of starting the European Renaissance.
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[Evagelopoulos]

Renaissance, the nostalgy of the ancient Greek fantasy.

[mihaiserbu]

Whyyyy started in Italy and not in Constantinopole?!
Why there ?!

[kimfreeborn]

Excellent lecture by Paula Findlen. Never dipped into woke ideology as one might have expected. Here we get an actual historical perspective from Petrarch as he would have seen Rome and Romanness.

[bozorgmaneshrobertsohrabi]

A simpole case of the humanities, and I am not Smetana to know the difference that uplifting note of a well rehearsed opportune to admire the National Institute of Standards and Technolog censored idealists.

[nicholaskhupsian]

The topic should rather be called personality of petrarche

[johnk]

Early example of "right" usage destroying one's monologue.

[MaryLee-rv]

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[Martin-wnml]

I was looking for the renaissance in AC. This is boring shit