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History Extra podcast

The Renaissance: everything you wanted to know

History Extra podcast

Immediate Media

History

4.34.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2021

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Jerry Brotton, professor of Renaissance studies at Queen Mary University of London, responds to listener questions and popular internet search queries about the Renaissance. He tackles everyday life in the era and explains why it saw such an explosion of ground-breaking art and culture.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the History Extra Podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's

0:15.3

bestselling history magazine.

0:19.1

I'm Elie Corthorn.

0:26.8

This podcast is the latest in our Everything You Wanted to Know series, in which we explore

0:32.0

a subject through questions that you've sent in via our social media and popular internet

0:36.7

search queries.

0:38.2

Today's episode is all about the Renaissance, and I put your questions on everything from

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everyday life to art, literature and science to Jerry Brotton, Professor of Renaissance

0:48.8

Studies at Queen Mary University of London, whose books include the Renaissance are very

0:54.2

short in production.

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So I think to start us off on the subject of the Renaissance, we'll start with a few

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of the most popular search terms from the internet.

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So when people are going to search engines and asking about the Renaissance, these are

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the things that they're asking.

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So first of all, let's go for what was the Renaissance?

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What was the Renaissance?

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Usually we'd say it's a historical period, usually 1350, some people start around 1400,

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ending in around 1600.

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Those are quite sort of arbitrary terms.

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We'd sort of say that it's a phenomenon which comes out of Italy in that late 14th, early

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15th century moment, and that is predominantly a flourishing of the arts, particularly the

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visual arts, so a painting, sculpture, but then also literature.

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