Paganism in the Renaissance (In Our Time)
1400 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss paganism in the Renaissance. For hundreds of years in the Middle Ages, the only way to read Ovid was through the prism of a Christian moralising text. Ovid's sensual tales of metamorphosis and pagan gods were presented as veiled allegories, and the famous story of Zeus descending to Danae in a shower of gold was explained as t
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Around 1400
- Gutenberg's printing press (1440)
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Mehmed II (1432)
- Forbidden City built (1406)
- Sultanate of Malacca founded (1400)
- Joseon dynasty (1392)
- Age of Exploration (1418)
- Zheng He (1371)