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A 6 page research paper that argues that our contemporary age is similar to that of the Renaissance. The writer compares the two times on numerous levels, but finds them most similar in that both the Renaissance and contemporary modern times have undergone an 'information revolution.' Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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apogee in the sixteenth and spreading throughout Europe (Ormond 18). Historians see the Renaissance as a period that stood in stark contrast to the Middle Ages, which came before it.
In a similar manner, historians of the future may look back on our current era and see it as a period of "Renaissance" that stands in sharp contrast to the
preceding age, which was more repressive, because our contemporary time and the period of the Renaissance have numerous features in common. Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494) proclaimed during the Renaissance
that "man" was little lower than the angels, and that through the auspices of free will he could lift himself up to God (Miles 15). Making such assertions very nearly
resulted in Pico being sentenced to the heretics fire, yet it typified the dazzling optimism of the Renaissance (Miles 15). Essentially, the turning away from the medieval worldview?the awakening that
occurred during this time?laid the basis for "Western civilization up to the present" (Ormond 18). It is little wonder that the ideas of the Renaissance still have a ring of
familiarity as this is when many of so-called "modern ideas" had their origin. The term "Renaissance" means "rebirth" (Ormond 18). The people of this time felt that they were reviving
older patterns of living and thinking that were first originated by the Romans and Greeks and the surviving art and letters of antiquity had a profound influence on this period.
The term has come to mean, in general, the "overriding spirit" that characterized the age in which desires that are intrinsic to human nature and were generally repressed under medieval
feudalism, "burst forth with new fervor and resulted in a new culture" (Ormond 18). This "new culture" affected every possible walk of life as the following discussion will illustrate.
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