1. Cultural Change in Europe
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Cultural Change in Europe

2. Cultural Change in Europe
A new world in Europe? Italian Renaissance Northern Renaissance Reformation and Counter-reformation Orality and literacy (scribal and print) Conclusion: from Theology to Science?

3. A New World in Europe?: Some impacts of the discoveries
An altered European self perception in space and time
1492: when discovery became invention (Latin: invenire) leading, via experience and experimentation, assisted by printing, to the scientific revolution.
The impact of American silver : military revolution and Europe’s religious wars.
The `public sphere’: news, public opinion, and religious and political debate.
Commodities and addictions: pepper, tobacco, sugar, coffee and tea.

4. Italy in 1500

6. Religious Divisions in Europe, c. 1560.

9. Canaletto’s London (1749)

10. Conclusion: from Theology to Science?
1. Medieval Theology: a priestly elite seeking knowledge of God 2. Moral philosophy: Italian and Northern humanists seeking knowledge of man 3. Natural philosophy: a scientific community seeking knowledge – and mastery – of the world 4. Each informs without replacing the others. God and the ancients remain central. Competing discourses and argument