The Renaissance
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The Renaissance: A Paradigm Shift
Francis Rousers: The notion of paradigm shift works particularly well in intellectual history. He says the individual artist is striving for improvement enhancement of his status both financially but also intellectually. This leads to major figures like Michelangelo, like Mantegna and Leonardo da Vinci who are moving out of their artistic activity into thinking much more broadly. Peter Berg: I think we should use the word Renaissance in the plural. We can follow the example of that great comparative historian, Arnold Toynbee,. There was a Carolingian Renaissance around 800, there was a 12th century Renaissance, there was what we call the Renaissance.
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