Comparison Between The Renaissance Periods

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What are the major differences among the Carolingian, Macedonian, and Islamic Renaissances? What makes each unique? How did these cultures remain clearly Roman-inspired? In each of the different renaissance periods Carolingian, Macedonian, and Islamic, each was unique in their importance regarding education and art. Also, each of them shared a great focus on both art and education. During the Macedonian Renaissance (c.870-c.1025), it was made possible by an elite class of families. These elite families never stopped studying the classics of Roman culture. Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitos even wrote books about geography and history and financed the work of other scholars and artists (275). The emperor was into such high morals that he had exact standards for the details of the craft people’s products. This period of the renaissance was inspired after the intellectual elite felt released from the Byzantium leadership with its lack of freedom. The Islamic Renaissance was from c.790-c.1050. The Islamic Renaissance was different in its area of concentration. The Macedonian period was centralized in Constantinople. Whereas, during the Islamic period, it was spread all throughout the Islamic world. In the capital city of Cordoba, housed a library, which had the largest collection of books in Europe at the time (282). Rich Muslims established schools or then called, madrasa. Each of these was located in or next to a mosque. Professors within these madrasas throughout the day interpreted the Qur’an and other literary or legal texts (283). The students also learned about the literature of Persia, India, and Greece. All the students were male because the females were not allowed to attend. Most of these male students had to pay a fee to learn. Others were granted scholarships. Also, during the Islamic period, merchants, scholars, doctors, and
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