What comes to mind when you think of the Renaissance?

[Buck Birdseed]

Late-19th-century "style" architecture.

[Urban Ranger]

Galileo and Michaelangelo

[Saras]

TEH MEDICIS!!!

[loinburger]

Originally posted by BeBro
it is related to the "Otto blahblah" emperors of the early times of the holy roman empire...

Is one of them the Otto who wiped the floor with the Magyars at the battle of somethingoranother? I'd always figured that guy was "only" considered The Great for, y'know, stopping the Magyars from wiping out the empire or whatever, but did they also do stuff like wear pantaloons and codpieces? (Because a renaissance just isn't a renaissance without those key ingredients...)

[molly bloom]

Venice, Florence, Prague, Cracow, Ragusa, the rise of modern banking, the decline of the power of the Church, and stunning architecture and art.

And aggressive codpieces like Henry VIII's and Francis I's.

[DeathByTheSword]

Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
Late-19th-century "style" architecture.

i hope this is a very sarcatic joke....if so


if not late 19 century is way past the renaissance...

renaissance started around 1400 in italy...

[Saras]

Originally posted by molly bloom
<...>, Florence, <...> <...> the rise of modern banking, <...>and stunning architecture and art.

As I said, TEH MEDICIS

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by DeathByTheSword



i hope this is a very sarcatic joke....if so


if not late 19 century is way past the renaissance...

renaissance started around 1400 in italy...

Apparently not in Sweden!

[alva]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
Why are you so interested in me anyway? You want a date or something?

Are you free this weekend?

[Stefu]

Wigs

Whigs

[St Leo]

People in tights.

[BeBMan]

Originally posted by loinburger

Is one of them the Otto who wiped the floor with the Magyars at the battle of somethingoranother? I'd always figured that guy was "only" considered The Great for, y'know, stopping the Magyars from wiping out the empire or whatever, but did they also do stuff like wear pantaloons and codpieces? (Because a renaissance just isn't a renaissance without those key ingredients...)

Yeah, the victory of Otto I. and the following consolidation of the empire lead to an upswing in several fields (said renaissance) that was in place even during the reign of the second and the third Otto. OTOH even the second Heinrich's rule saw something of it when he followed the third Otto, so it is not exclusively an Otto-specific phenomenon.

Of course, they all had no idea of codpieces back then. That's what you get when barbarians without pantaloons try to make a renaissance

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by DeathByTheSword



i hope this is a very sarcatic joke....if so


if not late 19 century is way past the renaissance...

renaissance started around 1400 in italy...

buck is apparently referring to renaissance REVIVAL architecture.

[lord of the mark]

madrigals. Salome Rossi. Tudors. Lovely Italian paintings. Devious Italian politics. The rise of the State. That sort of thing.

The early phase of EU2, when I messed up by not investing enough in infra. But heard lots of pretty music. Over and over again.

[molly bloom]

Originally posted by Saras


As I said, TEH MEDICIS

Ah, but stunning architecture appeared elsewhere in Italy- Venice and the Papal States, Milan- not under the jurisdiction of the Medicis.

And the Medicis weren't solely responsible for modern banking methods- the Bardi and Peruzzi were bankers too, and Luca Pacioli describes double entry bookkeeping as a practice followed in Venice- which also of course had a system of insurance for its merchants, and a very rich oligarchy.