What is the difference between medieval and renaissance europe?
The medieval era had become stagnant, and what growth there was socially and otherwise was slow. Very slow. The Renaissance had men who reached back in time and drew out the best of the old worlds of the ancient Greeks, and other civilizations. They brought them to the forefront of education and exploited the best of the best ideas that fell before the medieval times. It was a Renaissance of knowledge that capitulated the whole of the continent into a more free thinking collection of nations striving for a better world. It worked, and lasted for centuries. In the art world the Renaissance ended with the “Impressionists”. The industrial revolution was another ending of the Renaissance. The main differences between the two eras was a matter of thought form and thinking. One was slow and confined (medieval) and the other was open and more flexible giving rise to very quick results for the European world.
