The Renaissance

The Renaissance began - as is probably true of so many large-scale social changes - both as the result of the accumulation of a number of small changes made by many people acting independently in a range of different arenas of society - merchants and artists, princes and sculptors, prostitutes and winemakers. But it was also given needed impetus by the fall of Constantinople in 1453.

Although it is of course an oversimplification of history to argue that the fall of Rome brought about the Dark Ages and the fall of Constantinople brought about the Renaissance it is not entirely inaccurate to use the destruction of these two great cities as markers for the beginnings of two eras. When Rome was overrun, many of its scholars and artists decamped to the Rome of the East, to the Byzantine Empire. And when Byzantium fell in turn, a millennium later, its scholars gathered together their most valuable possessions

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