WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The shift toward political and religious freedom in turn, helped spawn the Reformation movement, which caused a divide within the powerful Catholic Church, leading many Europeans to turn to then-new Protestant faith.

Detailed explanation-2: -Renaissance humanism was a revival in the study of Classical antiquity, at first in Italy and then spreading across Western Europe in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.

Detailed explanation-3: -Italy in the Renaissance was a deeply religious society. The Catholic Church, based in Rome, the center of Italy, was at its strongest.

Detailed explanation-4: -Renaissance Humanism was an intellectual movement typified by a revived interest in the classical world and studies which focussed not on religion but on what it is to be human. Its origins went back to 14th-century Italy and such authors as Petrarch (1304-1374) who searched out ‘lost’ ancient manuscripts.