Causes of the Renaissance
... While Europe was steeped in the Dark Ages after the fall of Rome, having lost many of the Classical works of Rome and Greece, the Muslims were making advancements in science, technology, art and literature. Due to trade with the Byzantine Empire, they gained access to many of these works and preserv ...
... While Europe was steeped in the Dark Ages after the fall of Rome, having lost many of the Classical works of Rome and Greece, the Muslims were making advancements in science, technology, art and literature. Due to trade with the Byzantine Empire, they gained access to many of these works and preserv ...
The birthplace of the renaissance
... • The word originally designated a group of scholars meeting wherever they could. • People, not buildings, made up the medieval university. • Universities arose at Paris, France; Bologna and Salerno, Italy and Oxford, England. ...
... • The word originally designated a group of scholars meeting wherever they could. • People, not buildings, made up the medieval university. • Universities arose at Paris, France; Bologna and Salerno, Italy and Oxford, England. ...
Transmission of the Greek Classics
The introduction of Greek philosophy and science into the culture of the Latin West in the Middle Ages was an event that transformed the intellectual life of Western Europe. It consisted of the discovery of many original works, such as those written by Aristotle in the classical period. Greek manuscripts have been maintained in the Greek speaking world in Constantinople, the Near East and Egypt. Interest in Greek texts and their availability was scarce in the Latin West until with increase traffic to the East, including the Latin Empire during the time of the Crusade, the Sack of Constantinople during the 4th Crusade, and finally the conquest of Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire caused many of the original Greek manuscripts to make their way into Western Europe, and thus fueled the Renaissance.