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The Arab Influence on the Italian Renaissance

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The Arab Influence on the Italian Renaissance ... and translated much of their material into Aramaic, the lingua franca of the Middle East at the time. ... In the middle of the 11th century, he came to teach at the medical school in Salerno , the first ...

The Impact of the Middle East on the European Renaissance ...

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The Impact of the Middle East on the European Renaissance The coming of the ... of art came a demand for a history of a more independent and artistic culture.

Italian Renaissance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Italian Renaissance was the earliest manifestation of the general European Renaissance, ... The term Renaissance is in essence a modern one that came into currency in the 19th century, in the work of .... A feature of the High Middle Ages in Northern Italy was the rise of the urban communes which had broken from the ...

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The game of chess originated in India, but was transmitted to Europe by the Islamic world. From the 11th to 13th centuries, medieval Europe absorbed knowledge from Islamic civilization, ... However, in the Middle East many Greek texts (such as the works of Aristotle) were translated from Greek into Syriac during the 6th and ...

History for Kids: How did the Renaissance start? - Ducksters

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The start of the Renaissance also was the end of the Middle Ages. ... However, around the 1300s, the people in Florence, Italy began to think differently about life ...

Style Guide: Renaissance Influences from Beyond Europe - Victoria ...

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The leaf motifs that decorated Islamic objects originated in ancient Rome. ... Patterns in blue and white were popular in the Middle East from the 14th century. .... Roman emperors set above them are inspired by Italian Renaissance architecture ...

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At one time the Middle East was in essence supposed to have caused the ... 1453, it was said, forced Greek literati to flee with their favorite books to Italy where, ..