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Please realize that if any one of us was born just a few short centuries before we were,
we could have easily found ourselves right in the middle of this horrific time period we're talking the fall of the middle ages and the rebirth or rehashing of human thought.
This is something that no matter how many times I read about this point in history I just can't get over it.
Life was so different in so many ways but so eerily similar in other ways.
The people at the time were terrified.
We talked about the bubonic plague.
We talked about how that turned into an economic crisis and then a political crisis but there are many layers to this parfait we're talking about.
The thing about covering something like the Renaissance is
that it's so multifaceted and so vague regarding things like where the beginning was,
when and where certain things caught on, and the causal relationships between things.
This thing we call the Renaissance is like a Leviathan with many tentacles and many dueling storylines and to relegate them to just a couple episodes as about as impossible
as it is pointless.
We will delve into many thinkers,
many times coming from very different parts of Western Europe and living through a different phase than the last guy we covered,
but with each episode you'll get a little more insight of the big picture.
One piece of the big picture,