when you have to go back a thousand years to progress forward...

Great overview of this interesting period of time

WE NEED TO GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING, NO TUITION IN COLLEGES!!

Would you consider making a video about the reformation in the near future? - Your presentations are very informative and enjoyable

28:30 every time, and all times, are a transition.

Once again. Great vid!!!

Did the social and economic effects of the Black Death have an effect on the evolution of the Renaissance?

20:28 That's actually the University of Oxford pictured in the slide.

Regarding students organizing first: I don’t really find it surprising considering a “class” of people under one instructor or institution makes a hierarchy of knowledge and power over enrollment, curriculum, and conditions. Naturally students would band together to resist offenses or changes that they found unacceptable and then these bands would go on to form lasting student unions. Students are uniquely advantaged in terms of their ability to organize compared to soldiers, who will be court marshaled for insubordination or workers who will be fired for union activity.

I never realised that two panels down from the famous panel on the roof of the Sistine Chapel there is a painting of God being mooned by someone and then from what I gather in his rage casting them down into hell on the panel below that.

Wow..it is amazing. I feel it will help me a lot in understanding Renaissance

I’m reading Alexander to Actium by Peter Green, there seems to be a few similarities between the renaissance you discuss here and the foundation of Ptolemaic Egypt and how greek culture was collected and recorded in Alexandria

36:14 how does Machiavelli's art of war square up to Sun Tzu's art of war

One observation: yes, Nobility was an important Patron of arts and even "science" with the start of Renaissance. But Catholic Church was still the most important patron of the movement. Center of Italian Renaissance in the arts moved from Florence and north Italy into Rome. Renaissance Popes(which some came from Northen italian families) gave a lot of money and resource for art in this period

I always knew universities were just a bunch of Bologna. ---Your curmudgeonly uncle

9:00 -- RE: Latin for the elites, and vernacular languages in writing; An interesting sub-topic all on its own, to me! I recently got a copy of Walter J. Ong's text "Orality and Literacy" which gets into the differences in how various subcultures *Think,* based on whether their primary form of learning is from an oral or literate tradition. The use of the vernacular as opposed to Latin (which had itself been imposed on the Greek texts, if I understood what you were saying earlier correctly) marks a period in which more people in general would be learning to read and write. Strangely though, throughout the period of the Renaissance (up to 1600) the masses were introduced to entertainments like theaters, some by traveling troupes doing dumb-shows, others by attending an actual theater. In all cases, the actors and understudies would have to be literate, and referring to scripts.

Great video, thanks for sharing. Would you consider making the more detailed three-part video at some point in the future? I'd donate to your patreon to facilitate such an occurrence :)

Good job mister

What's classical culture aNd tell me the features pls

What about the Literati during the time of Philip the Fair?

39:09 so the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles rooted characteristics in the actual history

If you've ever read any of Chaucer's work he was obviously quite familiar with a lot of Greek Myths, he has numerous references to the Iliad and Greek Mythology in general throughout his works also writing in the 14th Century and his works were mean't for a widespread circulation implying that a lot of this knowledge was common at the time amongst the literate.

Renezance could make a good drag queen name

The Da Vinci Code is fiction (sorry to say)?! Now I'm becoming very very disappointed ... not. I'm not the very least sorry to hear that the stupid fiction book is stupid fiction.

Obviously the ancient Greeks had algebra and so it wasn't invented in the 9th century: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigonometry#History