Aspects of the Renaissance

<p>The Renaissance has long posed a problem to scholars. It has been generalized as an emergence of intellect and will in all fields of human endeavor but because it is diversely manifested in varying attitudes and forms at various times in the Western world this vast era of Western European history has resisted definitive boundaries.</p> <p>To help clarify the problems inherent in the study of the Renaissance and its relationship to the preceding and subsequent historical periods an international conference was held in Austin Texas in April 1964 jointly sponsored by the South Central Renaissance Conference and The University of Texas. The ten papers here presented reveal how during the symposium leading scholars representing several academic disciplines shared their approaches and insights into the politics economics science literature art music philosophy and religion of this complex era.</p>