TITLE: “Renaissance values on culture centres outside Italy”
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AUTHOR: Mavarine Du-Marie
DATE: 3rd May 2008
CITATION:
“The cultural movement within Europe, with regards to the values of the Renaissance, I think, happened very gradually, and by channels of communication which were utilised to transmit the Renaissance concepts readily but, outside Italy, the impact was a process of assimilation rather than a totality of emulation, and these became, in turn, the cultural centres of the Renaissance.
In terms of an enquiry, I will illustrate how the cultural centres was developed by analysing two countries: Poland and the Netherlands, with regards to their significant reception to the Renaissance period, to demonstrate the scope of their relations…”
As these maps illustrate a humanistic geography, which is a term defined as a reflection “…upon geographical phenomena with the ultimate purpose of achieving a better understanding of man and his condition…” (Tan, 1976)
Reference:
Tan, Y., (1976), Humanistic Geography, Annals of the Associations of American Geographers, Vol. 66, pp.266-276.
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