Webduring the middle ages, the nations of europe forged new identities that moved them away from the lost glory of the roman empire into their own ethnicity. Webhe devoted most of his time to studying the history of art and culture, and he was one of the first to describe the time of the renaissance. He was also interested in his own social time and was highly critical of the developing nationalisms and militarisms in. Webthe renaissance was a revolutionary period of european artistic, cultural, economic and political ‘rebirth’ after the ‘dark’ middle ages.
