Renaisance not just fine arts but also other fields e.g. science, literature, civic affair,s theology, medicine. Also not the first intellectual revival after fall of rome: carolingian renaisance and 12th cent renaissance

importance of SR background in middle age and renaissance

Specific changes - intellectual, technological ,political - and modern developments e.g. engineering, art, literature took place differently in different places e.g. Italy before outskirts like England

Early modern intellectuals reworked a lot of medieval questions and ideas but love to disparage the period