renaissance


 * The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England dating from the early 16th century to the early 17th century.
 * This era is sometimes referred to as "the age of Shakespeare" or "the Elizabethan era".
 * The word remaissance is French for rebirth.
 * Also called the age of idealism.
 * Europe emerged from the slow economic growth of the Middle Ages and experienced a time of financial growth.
 * The Renaissance was an age in which artistic, social, scientific, and political thought turned in new directions.