After several dark centuries of tight religious control over ideas, in the Renaissance people reawoke and began to feel with their own bodies and think with their own minds. In art, literature, music, philosophy and politics, there arose a powerful spirit of curiosity and enquiry, which produced the culturally most creative period in Western history.
經過數百年宗教思想的黑暗時期，人們在文藝復興時期甦醒，開始感覺自己的身體，以自己的頭腦思考，在美術、文學、音樂、哲學或是政治上，都產生旺盛的好奇與思索，是西方歷史中，最具文化創造力的時代。