Changing Cultural Traditions
NCERT Themes in World History, Class 11, Chapter 5 explores the cultural ferment in Europe from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century. It presents humanist scholars, artists such as Leonardo and Michelangelo, architects, and printers whose movable type carried new books across towns. It follows Copernicus, Galileo, and Vesalius as they questioned old views of the universe and body, and notes the debt to Arab and Asian learning. It asks whether the Renaissance marked a sharp break with the medieval past.
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