Renaissance Change in society

The Renaissance was a time of great cultural change. People found a new way of thinking, a new way of solving problems. Artists were trying to use perspective, while scientists were looking to the sky. Throughout the renaissance everything was changing people wanted to learn new things and have new experiences. Much like today where the internet has opened new doors to people. Like the renaissance there are new ways of thinking and new ways of solving problems. From then to now some things haven’t changed much; astronomers still look up trying to unravel the universe like Copernicus. Other things are nothing like they were then, the humanism of the renaissance has been moved aside for a pessimistic way of seeing the world.

There was a new social structure, coming away from the feudalism of the earlier part of the middle ages into a more definite monarchy. With things like the 100 years war and the plague the small more individualized governments collapsed and gave way to single ruler systems. Workers became peasants, serfs became free, Powerful city states became even more powerful nations ruled by a monarch. The overall structure was much like that of the U.S. today. There was a class system with the poor at the bottom and the rich at the top. Different classes of people all had very different types of lives. At the bottom were the people that had been serfs. They went from being slaves to being poor workers that depended on their employer for their survival. Then there were the rich nobles who provided protection for the peasants, but at the same time depended on the king for their own protection. Then there was the King, the King would have been responsible to provide what the lower classes need. This was the normal life for people during the renaissance. Some of the people had time to look out and learn while others had time just to work. Everyone since the renaissance has benefited from the ideas that were new then, and people will for years to come.