Do You Remember Counterrevolution?

摘要

Since its invention in the nineteenth century the now epic history of the Renaissance has symbolised a golden age for western art, with scholars from multiple fields more or less unanimous in considering it the starting point of both the enduring intellectual tradition we call humanism and the ongoing historical era we call modernity. Despite several challenges over the last decades both to the idea of the Renaissance as a moment distinct from medieval civilisation and to an overly idealistic understanding of humanist culture, in popular imagination at least the myth of the Renaissance remains intact.