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12th & 13th Centuries
Scholasticism
Rise of Universities
Literature
14th Century
Calamities:
little ice age
Famine
Black death
Peason revolts
Anti-semitism
Witch-craft trials
Great schism
2 popes
100 years war
Late 14th Century Italy
Rise of Banking
In italian merchant city - states
Florence
Milan
Venice
Medici Family
(first Italian mob)
Loaning money, interest, giving rise to modern economics
Leads to small business leads to a middle class with enough $ to be educated and these middle class families commission art & literature.
15th & 16th Century
Renaissance spreads throughout Europe
Characteristics / movements