The term Renaissance

  Renaissance—the rebirth of leaming that took place in the sixteenth century in England—gave a new life to literature and the arts. The term Renaissance is used to refer to the revolutionary movement that began in Italy in the medieval period as mentioned above and gradually enveloped the whole of Europe. The movement set store by rational thought and cultivation of self. The discovery of the lost texts of classical Latin and Greek literature also created a new understanding among people in England specifically and Europe generally. It modified European thought.

 

Renaissance brought in a new value system in which education received immense importance. The humanists had deep faith in the idea that education and leaming could help achieve one’s best seif. Renaissance educators thus discarded the old model! of education where knowledge came as received. On the other hand, redefined the framework of comprehending the existing phenomena. Consequently, it believed in the power of books. A view of education leading to a higher life is professed by Philip Sidney who was a contemporary of Spenser in his Apologie for Poetrie. He claims, “This purifying of wit, this enntching of memory, enabling of judgement and enlarging of conceyt, whichcommonly we call learning [was meant] to lead and draw us to as high a perfection” as our souls allow. (The medieval English style of writing found in Sidney and Spenser is different from modem English. The English language had different spelling at the time and was not standardized the way it became later. Thus you will find in Spenser's works words that are spelt differently but when read aloud they make sense.)

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