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Jiang presents the mainstream Renaissance origin story as a perfect storm of Constantinople's decline, Crusader contact with the Islamic Golden Age, competitive Italian city-states, merchant wealth, universities and monasteries, and the printing press.
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Jiang presents the mainstream Renaissance origin story as a perfect storm of Constantinople's decline, Crusader contact with the Islamic Golden Age, competitive Italian city-states, merchant wealth, universities and monasteries, and the printing press.
"Okay, good morning. So today, this morning, we are doing the Renaissance. Specifically, we are asking the question, how the Renaissance? How did the..."
"It is here to the Roman, Greco -Roman legacy. It is here to the Roman, Greco -Roman legacy. But, as the Ottoman Turks start..."
"is that because these city -states were always at war with each other, everyone was a participant in history. Remember, if you are in..."
"Why this is important is previous elites were either of the warrior class or the priest class. If you're a warrior class, you win..."
"and monasteries are places of theological debate and discussion and they store the classics and this is where a lot of new ideas will..."
The Renaissance is not only money, trade, city-states, books, and paintings.
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