Differences Between The Renaissance And Modern Society

In European history the Renaissance was an era from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century. It is considered as the cultural connection between the middle ages and contemporary history. It is commonly believed that the Renaissance began in Italy during the fourteenth century. The Italian Renaissance led the development of humanism, a movement which revived the study of Roman and Greek learning and restored numerous ancient transcripts. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it spread to the rest of Europe. The reforms that the movement brought in Christianity caused turmoil within the European society. Even though scientists argue about the specific dates when the Renaissance era had begun or ended, there are no two ways that it had remarkably influenced the present day society. The reflection of ideas and concepts that were born in that era are still detectable in the present culture and yet significant differences between the early Renaissance Europe society and the contemporary society can be seen.
Hause and Maltby's book presents an elaborate picture of an average man’s life through history starting with the early Renaissance to the contemporaneity. Their book ‘A History of European Society’ gives a very concise overview about the development of the western society and balanced information about the social and political

He presents a variety of ideas that can be easily applied to the present society, accompanying every concept with a very useful historical background. Browning explicates the correlation between the Renaissance and the contemporary society while covering the major changes that the society has undergone while demonstrating social developments that have shaped modern people’s understanding of the world (Browning,