Politics During Renaissance

Politics during renaissance period faced many challenges, hurdles and the attitude of population hugely varied from one attitude to another within a short period of time. It was a massive turning point in Western Intellectual and Cultural Tradition. For the laymen, the academia could be explained as a period when political changes came in during when people started looking forward to humanism, the concept of treating fellow humans with compassion and love by respecting human life and moved away from eccentric circle of religious beliefs. Earlier, it was the priests and religious leaders ruled the people faking ideologies which were against other humans but made them believe it was god’s wish to do so! Humanism abruptly put an end to the inane practices and the three major categories of renaissance is political, educational and humanism of arts.

Feudal system existed at large between different communities and believers of contrasting ideologies during the middle ages which were ended by the renaissance evolvement. It all began in Florence where power war raged between the right, middle and upper middle namely new rich class consisting of merchants, capitalists dominating the region. The poor found new leaders among them to fight for a cause and many became supreme powers with the promotion of renaissance mottos. Politics during renaissance was not a civil war but it was more of a cold war that had the capacity to burst at any given moment. Many leaders led people to fight against their enemies to change the political system which is unbiased giving equal opportunity to all.

Surprisingly, such wars and freedom fights existed even after renaissance evolved during the British rule throughout the world while United States of America faced similar situations. Yet, it was seed sown during renaissance period that laid step stone for such struggles. Education imparted during the same time was designed with an objective to make people eloquent to make their conversation audible among the powered circle. It covered vast but limited knowledge on all fields of interest letting people gain erudite ideas to speak what they think without relying on political governance to dominate them. 

Politics during renaissance is a collection of proactive thinking and innovative, undaunted approach in all factors that affected the society right from their political system, dressing style, educational institutions, religion & philosophy, art, architecture and much more changing the entire face of the world for a strong, consolidated sharing of power in government.

Questions:

• Why renaissance is such a period of importance?
• What were the changed witnessed in politics during renaissance?