... of the unprecedented scientific knowledge, but also the new mindsets towards examining the natural world. The rediscovery of Greeko-Roman ideas led to questioning of the ideas held during the middle ages. The humanist interest in both the belief in human ability to find the truth plus the return to classical texts led people in the era of the SR to discover ... the existence of scientific research before the Middle Ages. Through the study of classical texts, people could gain new perspectives of previously forgotten hypotheses. They were then incited to verify them as these classical ma...

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... and medical work. Benedictines. Benedictines, monks and nuns following the rule of St Benedict of Nursia. The first 12 Benedictine monasteries were founded early in the 6th century at Subiaco, near Rome, by Benedict, who later founded the famous abbey at Monte Cassino and there established the rule ... Great who took the Benedictine rule to England late in the 6th century, became the first of a long list of Benedictine archbishops of Canterbury. As early as 1354 the order had provided 24 popes, 200 cardinals, 7,000 archbishops, 15,000 bishops, 1,560 canonized saints, and 5,000 holy people...

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... its role in the world and its perception of the world beyond Rome, were becoming less and less compatible with actual conditions. Society had been changing in Europe throughout the Middle Ages, the Renaissance was dramatically transforming the way in which people looked at the world around them, and more importantly, how they looked at themselves and their place in the world ... and emphasis on the individual. Other external factors that aided the Reformation movement in Europe were the invention of printing, as mentioned above, the rise of commerce, foreign trade, and a middle class, a...

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