Makings of the Renaissance

It is generally agreed among scholars that the Renaissance emerged in Italy although the wave of "new learning" and humanism in thought and ideas was certainly not limited to Italy (Huizinga, 1996). Italy is generally regarded as the primary locus of the complex movement that stirred in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and then reached a climax in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Italy, spreading with different manifestations throughout Europe (Gardner, 1982).

The Renaissance emerged in Italy as a direct consequence of a number of unique political, social, and economic conditions. For example, St. Francis and the Franciscan movement was unique to Italy and turned the tide of thought from the Medieval point of view that focused a futu

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