Life After Death: The Renaissance Era "All this meant change, and was therefore resented by the medieval mind." -William Manchester Medieval Europe was a time when nobles ruled and knights battling to the death were Saturday evening entertainment. This era, which seems so ancient from Europe as we know it today, shifted rather quickly from a backwards society into a flourishing period called the Renaissance. In Manchester's historical essay, A World Lit Only By Fire, …showed first 75 words of 1327 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1327 total…concepts. People realized they were not alone; others had ideas similar to theirs and change became inevitable. Now that all the stepping-stones were in place such as the Black Death, the beginnings of formalized education, the fall of the Catholic Church, and the invention of the printing press, Europe could transform from a dying shrub into a beautiful, expanding garden. The way of medieval Europe became cultivated into the Renaissance; and life truly began again.