Renaissance

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David by Michelangelo Buanaroti

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Characteristics of the Renaissance

• Humanism: human achievements/potential rather than religion
• Interest in secularism, or non-religious worldly matters
• Individualism
• Questioning Attitude
• Rise of the middle class
• Great achievements in the arts

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The English Renaissance

• Humanism is both the keynote of the Renaissance and the intellectual liberation movement, associated with new attitudes to ancient Greek and Latin literature. The humanists began by criticizing and evaluating the Latin and Greek authors in the light of what they believed to be Roman and Greek standards of civilization. They took interest in human life and human activities and gave expression to the new feeling of admiration for human beauty, human achievement.