*The writers of the Italian Renaissance - after a period of about a thousand years of cultural darkness and ignorance, there arose a new age with a great revival in classical literature, learning, and the arts.

*The writers of the Italian Renaissance
- after a period of about a thousand years of cultural darkness and ignorance, there arose a new age with a great revival in classical literature, learning, and the arts.

*The humanists of the Northern Renaissance
Rabelais - out of the thick Gothic might our eyes are opened to the glorious torch of the sun.

*Protestant writers
- emphasizing the medieval barbarization of religion and culture.

*In the Age of Reason
Ratioanlists - Voltaire, Condorcet, Bolingbroke, Hume
saw nothing but barbarism, ignorance, superstition, violence, irrationality, and priestly tyranny in the period of Western history between the fall of Rome and the beginning of the modern era, the Reanissance.

*In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth C.
  - Romanticism - A reaction took place
      There was a lively interest in historical growth and evolution.
      Human history was enthusiastically approached, the folk origins of art, language, literature, and music were patriotically idealized, and the irrational, the simple, and the emotional sympathetically sought out.

The Age of Faith was discovered and peopled with chivalrous knights, beautiful ladies, pious clergy, and industrius peasants.
반면에 Romantic writers는 Renaissance가 pagan, sensuous, villainous, and shocking 하다는 점을 발견하였다. 하지만 매력적이라고 여김