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34.0 Renascence of Western Civilization[1]

[1]Renascence here means rebirth, and it is applied to the recovery of the entire Western world. It is not to be confused with the “Renaissance,” an educational, literary, and artistic revival that went on in Italy and the Western world affected by Italy during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The Renaissance was only a part of the Renascence of Europe. The Renaissance was a revival due to the exhumation of classical art and learning; it was but one factor in the very much larger and more complicated resurrection of European capacity and vigour, with which we are dealing in this chapter.

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