What attitudes, social/economic developments, and technologies might we identify with the European Renaissance (roughly late 14th-early 17th century)? What is the connection between the Renaissance and the Reformation - aka the era of religious debate/conflict that permanently ended the near-monopoly enjoyed by the Roman Catholic Church over religious life in western/central Europe? Although (as usual) it wasn't as if a switch was suddenly flipped, it is nonetheless the case that new activities, attitudes, and developments interacted to gradually transform how even ordinary people lived.

What attitudes, social/economic developments, and technologies might we identify with the European Renaissance (roughly late 14th-early 17th century)? What is the connection between the Renaissance and the Reformation - aka the era of religious debate/conflict that permanently ended the near-monopoly enjoyed by the Roman Catholic Church over religious life in western/central Europe? Although (as usual) it wasn't as if a switch was suddenly flipped, it is nonetheless the case that new activities, attitudes, and developments interacted to gradually transform how even ordinary people lived.