The Western Heritage Chapter 10 Notes
European History Renaissance and Discovery Reading Notes: Renaissance was a time of transition from medieval to modern world -Medieval Europe= fragmented feudal society w agricultural economy/ thought and culture dom by church - Renaissance Europe= growing national consciousness (nationalism- Feudalism becomes undermined b/c hundred years war?) political centralization, urban economy based on organized commerce+ capitalism/ lay and secular thought of culture, including religion (thoughts were not dom by religion anymore) Renaissance society first took shape in cities of late medieval Italy