<Tab/>The Renaissance was the transitional period between the Dark Ages and the Age of Enlightenment. It's meaning, rebirth, symbolizes human, cultural, political, and economic regeneration. Events at the end of the Middle Ages, beginning in the 12th century, started a reformation of these ideals. The Renaissance started in Florence, Italy in the beginning of the 14th century. The Renaissance was earliest expressed through Humanism. The effect of Humanism helped men …showed first 75 words of 708 total…

…showed last 75 words of 708 total…literature to come from that era. From the Renaissance we got the Sistine Chapel, the Mona Lisa, and other infamous works of art. That was one of the good outcomes of the Renaissance. But, of course there is always a downside. That disadvantage was the Black Death, which killed so many people that not all of them could be buried fast enough. We still can feel the result of these outcomes of the Renaissance today.