I'm convinced the only reason people believe that the Renaissance was a great period of time is aesthetics. The fact is, the same kind of geopolitical fragmentation, state-backed brutality, religious division, inequality, wasteful spending, and moral laxity can be found in Africa right now. The only difference is that the modern day Cesare Borgia or Francesco Sforza is an 18 year old Congolese warlord who he doesn't have beautiful cathedrals, paintings, or music to give him aura.
>>18459761“Golden Age” is a misnomer that confuses a lot of people.Probably because it shares its name with the golden age from Ovid’s The Ages of Man which was a utopia.“Golden Age” when used in the context of defining time periods in the real world actually means “time period when a lot of innovations in a particular field happened close to each other”.Using this definition, the Renaissance of the Belle Époque WERE golden ages… for the arts, or the Scientific Revolution was a golden age… for science.It doesn’t actually mean “time period that was great to live in”, it just means that many innovations in particular spheres of human activity happened close to each other.
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I think you totally misunderstand what people consider good about the renaissance.
>>18459829You can find behind every good thing out of the Renaissance darkness.
>>18459761Cesare Borgia was HIM
>>18459829The renaissance was the best thing that could happen to humanity as it is the point in time when christkikes started losing institutional power. And they never recovered. No more will man be a prisoner to primitive superstition, but will be free.
>>18460514That's a misconception, though. Religious fervor was higher in 1400-1600s than it was during the middle-age, and churches were vastly more brutal.
>>18459761>it was like modern africa except way better and also hundreds of years ago
>>18459829The average retard considers the Renaissance good because of aesthetics. When a normie hers "Renaissance", he thinks about the Mona Lisa and the Sistine Chapel. Some more educated normies think about the rediscovery of the classics, which are mostly a bunch of superstitious non-sense and didn't revolutionize science in the way people think they did. Pure aesthetics about a period and place that wasn't that much greater than what came before and after. Surely not heaven on earthNobody without a serious interest in history thinks about the political instability, bloodshed and treachery of that period. Normies don't even know that Florence was a state or who Francesco Sforza is, or that Sforza was a random dipshit mercenairy who toppled a republic that itself toppled a legitimate monarchy
>>18459761I agree, and any Protestant should agree with you. Luther protested about the humanist degeneracy and excess of Renaissance Italy and it key proponent, the degenerated late medieval Catholic Church. Pic related is the bastard son, turned warlord of a pope who wasn't even an ordained priest and literally bought the papacy
>>18459761OPs a shitty midwit.>geopolitical fragmentation, state-backed brutality, religious division, inequality, wasteful spending, and moral laxity can be found in Africa right nowHave you lived under a rock for the past 120 years? All of that occurred in Europe and you still see most of that to this day under more PR friendly imagery.
>>18460514>No more will man be a prisoner to primitive superstitionLol>but will be free.Lmao
Libtards just didn't want to associate the beautiful arts of the 16th century with christianity and the medieval eraPeople like Charles the V and Suleiman the magnificent were closer to people like Richard Lionheart and Saladin than Napoleon and Ataturk
>>18459761a reminder more women were burnt during the 200-year renaissance/baroque/enlightenment than the 1000 year medieval period
