…Burckhardt. Burckhardt said the Renaissance was a quantum leap in world cultural history and then other people said: well what about Giotto, what about patatria what about Boccaccio? And the truth is that whenever you look at two major milestones in history…

…history of western thought that is never discussed sufficiently. We are asked to believe that somewhere between the death of Giotto and the death of Michelangelo, european human beings suddenly understood that things got smaller the further away from you they…

…occurred in 1359. What has happened is, besides the black death, the first phase of the hundred year war ended then. Giotto is painting. Meister Eckart is writing. William of Occam is formulating his philosophy. Tamerlane, Chaucer, Wycliffe, so forth and so…