Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from History of Modern Europe
During the last two centuries of the Middle Age(1300- 1500), a series of changes transformed the states of Europe, European society, and the European man himself. Theses two centuries mark a transition period, and are very properly called the Renaissance. During the Renaissance, state, society, and man emerged from their mediaeval condition and assumed a new aspect, which we call modern. Modern History, therefore, we date from the period of the approximate completion of this evolutionary process, that is, from the end of the fifteenth century. The agents and events which contributed most largely to this transformation of Europe are here briefly enumerated.
The Revival of Learning. - First in Italy, and later in the countries of the north, men began to interest themselves in the long-forgotten literature and art of Greece and Rome. By patient labor they excavated, as it were, the buried culture of antiquity and added it to their meagre mediaeval stock.
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