Essays on Renaissance

Jacobean Theatre James I was crowned as king of England in 1603, succeeding the successful era of Elizabeth, following her death. However, while theatre was experiencing a renaissance in England, the people were fearful about the shift in power from Elizabeth to James. England was...

Around the year 1400, The Hundred Years’ War was at a period of peace and the internal strifes in England and France were well underway. Terribly blown by the great plague, the European population was slowly on the rise though frequently halted by devastating warfare...

The Reformation is where all of the altercations began. This broke the unity of the Latin Church and started many wars. The papacy, in 1500, had position as Europe’s authority. Popes used to have disputes over the church, but now show power that is paid...

Renaissance was the rebirth that welcomed progress and revolution in all spheres of life in Europe. The revolution had spread all over Europe by the 16th century and led to changes in the social and religious sphere, rise in scientific inventions such as printing press,...

The Renaissance era, which extends from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century, was the theater of cultural, political, economic, and literary revolutions that contributed to the revival of classical forms developed by the Greek and Romans, but also shed light on the issue of individuals...

 In his “The Canterbury Tales,” Geoffrey Chaucer was able to put his stories into a group of pilgrims. Him doing this had created an opportunity to produce a set of character that had provide both psychological and social observations in English literature. Geoffrey Chaucer had...

He inspired other painters and sculptors to work on more secular art rather than traditional Christian artworks. Which lead to an impact in the Humanist movement during the renaissance. The “David” shows humidity through its rationality because the statue shows a man before fighting in...

Throughout history, women were always seen as inferior to men. Their contributions were always overlooked and most times were denied access to basic necessities in life such as education. The renaissance was a period in history when people started to move away from the Dark...

Born in the Renaissance period which spanned the fourteenth to sixteenth century, Leonardo da Vinci would become one of the smartest men ever to live. He was trained through primary education and went on to many accomplishments with his knowledge of math, science, and art....

The transition to European Renaissance is a quite noticeable change for all civilizations. It transferred Europe drastically from the enhancement in technology, beliefs, philosophies, education, art and architecture, history, and agriculture. Many Westerns strongly deny that Arabs, especially Muslims, had played an important role of...