The Renaissance Era: Major Social Changes, Humanism, and the Rise of Modern Age in Europe

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Discuss the major social changes of the Renaissance era. Were these changes actually a
rejection of medieval trends? How did the idea of Humanism help drive the changes of
the Renaissance era that produced the Modern Age.
The period of the renaissance in the history of the Europe was characterized as the
period or the time of major cyltural and social change. Not only just the economic growth but
als the period was the intense cultural ferment (Wheeler, 2017). One of the greatest change
that can be illustrated was the development or the invention of the Printing Press by Johann
Fust, Guterberg and Peter Schoffer towards the experimentation of the movable type, use of
the paper and group of words. The period noticed the publication of the first book, the
Guterberg Bible in the year 1456.
One of the most prevelant changes during the era of renaissance was the sudden fall
of the feudalism and the rise of the market economy that is capitalist in nature. The era
showed increased level of the trade and the shortage of the labour force that was the result of
the black death, thus giving rise to the middle class.
The French term, renaissance meaning rebirth influenced the philosophy, the literature
,the politics and some of the other aspects of the intellectual enquiry. These changes were not
actually the rejection of the medieval trends but this transformation is generaly viewed as the
bridge among the modern era and the middle age including various instances of the
revolution together with the political and the social upheal.
The period of renaissance elaborated the rebirth of the culture and the science
highlighting and considering the middle age to be the period of the cultural decline. This
period revitalized the culture through the emphasizing of the philopsophies and the classical
texts with the creation of the developments of humanist philosophy, writing of the vernacular
language and more.