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The Renaissance Introduction Dr. Michael Delahoyde Washington State University Renaissance means rebirth -- so whats new? Artists and scholars of the Renaissance self-consciously believed they were innovators, that they had begun a fresh new era. They have convinced posterity too. They rigorously aligned themselves with antiquity and coined the term Middle Ages as that dismissable millennium of lull in between. Thus the light of the Renaissance they depicted as breaking through long dark night of Middle Ages: this was Petrarchs insistence and the subsequent myth. Lately, many scholars have