Glossary
Jiang defines it as a Christian-European reimagining of classical Greece that generates the values of modernity.
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Renaissance
Jiang defines it as a Christian-European reimagining of classical Greece that generates the values of modernity.
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Jiang argues that Dante helped give birth to modernity by launching the Renaissance, Protestant Reformation, and Scientific Revolution as linked movements.
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The Renaissance is defined as an intellectual revolution that combines classical Greece with Christian Europe and thereby creates the values of modernity.
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Jiang's own thesis is that Dante, not the background perfect storm alone, is the secret sauce that sparks the Renaissance.
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Raphael's papal apartment frescoes embody the Renaissance ideal of open-minded holistic learning by balancing philosophy, religion, poetry, and law.
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The lecture closes by saying the Crusades material is needed for future classes, especially the Renaissance and Protestant Reformation.
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He treats the Black Death as a social reset that made the Renaissance possible by allowing massive innovation in Europe.
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Jiang credits Islamic Golden Age mathematics, optics, surgery, hospitals, and universities as foundations that fed the European Renaissance.
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Jiang claims the Divine Comedy becomes a blueprint for the Renaissance, Protestant Reformation, and Scientific Revolution because poetry enters memory and shapes the subconscious brain.
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"...modernity. And he really launched three major movements, which include the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, and the Second Revolution. Okay, we would not have..."
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"Okay, good morning. So today, this morning, we are doing the Renaissance. Specifically, we are asking the question, how the Renaissance? How did the..."
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"...what scholars believe is these various factors will coalesce into the Renaissance and mark an intellectual revolution in Europe, right? Now, the thing that..."
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"...my argument, which is that Dante is most responsible for the Renaissance, okay? So, a basic fact that we need to remember. If you..."
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"So what is this saying? What this is saying is the art is alive if you engage with it. Okay? Art is not meant..."
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"All right? So that's the very ideal of the Renaissance, open -mindedness, exploration. And holistic learning. All right. So let's look at this painting...."
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"...material in future classes. Okay. So, next week, we start the Renaissance. Okay? The Renaissance will take us to the Protestant Reformation."
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"...important for us also because. It will give rise to the Renaissance. Which we'll do next week. Okay? So about the Black Death. Historians..."
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"let's look at dante's divine comedy so dante is in uh hell and there in limbo he's meeting the most influential the greatest philosophers..."
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"...back to Europe, and they will become the basis of the Renaissance. Al -Zahari is the father of surgery. At this time in world..."
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"It's still there guys Okay, this is the oldest university in the world. What's also amazing is it was founded by a woman who..."
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"...is historically significant because it becomes an actual blueprint for the Renaissance, for the Protestant Reformation, and the Sino -Revolution. And then you ask..."
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The Renaissance is not only money, trade, city-states, books, and paintings.
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Genghis Khan is not explained by saying the Mongols were uniquely evil.
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The easy story says modernity begins in Europe after a medieval interruption.
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The Divine Comedy does not defeat Virgil by denouncing him.
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