The Renaissance, Black Death, The Medici family, and Serfdom
VERN BENDER
The Renaissance was a vibrant European cultural, artistic, political, and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages. Generally described as taking place from the 14th century to the 17th century, the Renaissance promoted classical philosophy, literature, and art. The Renaissance started in Florence, Italy, a rich cultural history where wealthy citizens could afford to support budding artists. Then, during the 15th century, Renaissance ideas spread from Italy to France and then throughout western and northern Europe.
Some observers have questioned whether the Renaissance was a cultural “advance” from the Middle Ages instead of seeing it as a period of pessimism and nostalgia for classical antiquity[16]. In contrast, social and economic historians, especially of the longue Durie, have instead focused on the continuity between the two eras,[17] which are linked, as Panofsky observed, “by a thousand ties.”[18]
From 1400 onward, beginning in Italy, Western Europe was swept by a re-awaking of the visual arts, science, architecture, and literature. It was healing the split between the Western and Eastern churches. The Council of Florence did the negotiating. A reunification treaty was signed in 1439. The treaty was never formally ratified. Constantinople fell to the Ottoman forces in 1453. Soon after, the Reformation kicked in. Science and faith were not yet seen as two mutually exclusive domains. That would come later.
Florence was ground zero, plus: Rome. Florence, Spain, and England. The Renaissance, a vibrant period of European cultural, artistic, political, and scientific “rebirth” after the Middle Ages, was led by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Machiavelli, and the Medici family. The Medici family, over everything, was terrible; they were especially very cruel and would kill anyone who would dare to stand in their way. The power of the Medici stretches from Florence to Rome. In Rome, even the pope could be bought by the Medici because they had so much energy.
Characteristics of the Renaissance include a renewed interest in classical antiquity, a rise in humanist philosophy (a belief in self, human worth, and individual dignity), and radical changes in ideas about religion, politics, and science.
The four characteristic features of the Renaissance period are the advent of new and powerful ideas of Humanism, rationalism, scientific spirit, and inquiry.
The stage was set for capitalism, but it didn’t start in Italy. Capitalism began to develop into its modern form during the Early Modern period in the Protestant countries of North-Western Europe, especially the Netherlands (Dutch Republic) and England: traders in Amsterdam. Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519): Italian painter, architect, inventor, and “Renaissance man” responsible for painting “The Mona Lisa” and “The Last Supper. Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536): Scholar from Holland who defined the humanist movement in Northern Europe. Translator of the New Testament into Greek.
Galileo (1564-1642): Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer whose pioneering work with telescopes enabled him to describes the moons of Jupiter and rings of Saturn. He was placed under house arrest for his views of a heliocentric universe.
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543): Mathematician and astronomer who made the first modern scientific argument for a heliocentric solar system concept.
The Black Death (also known as the Pestilence, the Great Mortality, or the Plague)[a] was the deadliest pandemic recorded in human history. The Black Death pandemic resulted in up to 75–200 million[1] people in Eurasia and North Africa,[2peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351. The Black Death began in the Himalayan Mountains of South Asia in the 1200s. Because living conditions were often cramped and dirty, humans lived in close contact with rats. Black rats were the most common and carried the bacteria called Yersinia pestis, which caused the plague. The plague killed an estimated 25 million people, almost a third of the continent’s population. The Black Death lingered on for centuries, particularly in cities. Outbreaks included the Great Plague of London (1665-66), in which 70,000 residents died.
In England, the end of serfdom began with the Peasants’ Revolt in 1381. It had largely died out in England by 1500 as a personal status and was fully ended when Elizabeth I freed the last remaining serfs in 1574. Serfdom was formally abolished in France in 1789.
It caused the lord of the manor and the serfs within the manor’s lands to be bound together socially and economically. For instance, in exchange for living and working on the manor’s lands, serfs received protection and justice from the lord. This highlights the ‘bondage’ portion of serfdom.
Serfdom developed in Eastern Europe after the Black Death epidemics of the mid-14th century, which stopped the eastward migration. The resulting high land-to-labor ratio – combined with Eastern Europe’s vast, sparsely populated areas – gave the lords an incentive to bind the remaining peasantry to their land. The House of Medici was an Italian banking family and political dynasty that first began to gather prominence under Cosmo de’ Medici in the Republic of Florence during the first half of the 15th century. The family originated in the Morello region of Tuscany and prospered gradually until it could fund the Medici Bank. This bank was the largest in Europe during the 15th century, and it facilitated the Medici’s rise to political power in Florence. However, they officially remained citizens rather than monarchs until the 16th century.
Every symmetry of physics laws leads to a conservation law, and every conservation law arises from asymmetry in the laws of physics.
THE LAW THAT CONTROLS ALL PARTICLE INTERACTIONS IS THIS:
ALL THINGS ARE TRIUNE, WITH BINARY INTERACTIVES. THIS IS THE LINKAGE BETWEEN MATTER AND FORCE-CARRYING PARTICLES. FERMIONS AND BOSONS control THE LINKAGE BETWEEN THE PARTICLE ZOO.
THE REALITY OF HOW LIFE FORMS CAME ABOUT ON THIS REMOTE BLUE MARBLE IS THIS: THE EVENT ORIGINATOR WROTE THE CODE, PRODUCED THE BLUEPRINT, AND USED AN EVOLVEMENT PROCESS TO OBTAIN THE REQUISITE RESULT. IT’S ALL JUST A BINARY SOFTWARE PROGRAM.
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE CODE THAT YOU START WITH.
THE DESIGNER/CREATOR’S PROCESS : (recap).
1ST: Write the code for the upcoming big bang that will create another universe.
(One universe does not an infinity make.)
2nd: Write the code for the design and evolvement for all intended results as the event unfolds.
( One event does not an eternity make).
3rd: Set the event in motion.
(All things are triune, with binary interactives).
4th: Monitor, fine-tune, adjust, and select out on-going.
5th: Use DESIGN AND EVOLVE as the process. Write a separately coded blueprint for the consciousness of the known thought reposers.
6th: It’s not the people; it’s the event.
7th: Harvesting new crops of known thought reposers will be the intended result.
Symmetry is the casual structure built into the creation module. The creation module has a two-way arrow of time that is built into it. All current information is always passed back into the versatile storage unit. These informational totals can’t be changed or deleted.
The closed sub-atomic quantum system is a duplicate of the macro quantum system. The two systems interact on a binary basis.
The triune combined functions of consciousness, quantum gravity, and quantum entanglement act as one from the underside of the fabric of space-time.
DNA is a codebook that issues instructions. DNA is the governing force that issues instructions to specificproteins at specific times, in particular amounts.
The gene blueprint regulates gene activity. DNA issues instruction three at a time. DNA is an information structure. It maintains gene production and regulation to deliver the correct gene functions. Genes are networked in a complex sequenced network. The gene network self schedules and provides the required results.
Information is physical, and it represents the ultimate nature of reality. These surprisingly simple assertions have many profound consequences. Information theory is the wellspring of our contemporary digital world. The universe is an information network. Life is an informational structure. Quantum gravity interacts with the universe’s knowledge base. This knowledge base stores the human consciousness bits. Growing and keeping the knowledge bytes from the known thought reposer’s production is why this current universe exists. The universe’s information structure built the universe. The information structure then operates this universe. When the universe matures, the consciousness bytes that the known thought reposers had generated are saved. They will b used again in the next universe.
The triune combined functions of consciousness, quantum gravity, and quantum entanglement act as one from the underside of the fabric of space-time.
