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Assess the intellectual awakening which occurred in Europe in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. How did it influence modem society and civilization.

  • UPSC 1993
  • Enlightenment and Modern Ideas

The Renaissance — literally "rebirth" — marks the moment European thought turned from otherworldly medieval certainties toward a confident, curious engagement with the human and natural world.

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  • The Italian Origins and the Revival of Classical Learning
  • Humanism and the New Conception of Man
  • Science and the New Cosmology
  • Art as the Visual Language of the New Spirit
  • The Northern Renaissance and the Bridge to Reform
  • Influence on Modern Society and Civilization

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