Renaissance is a new cultural movement and a bourgeois cultural revolution movement. Has great historical significance:

1, which broke the situation of European ideological circles under feudal pressure and promoted the transformation of Europe from god-centered to people-oriented It awakens people's enterprising spirit, creative spirit and scientific experiment spirit, and opens the way for promoting the revolutionary struggle against feudalism, promoting the development of capitalist economy, and eliminating feudalism and successfully establishing capitalist system.

The splendid culture created by Renaissance opened a new chapter of world civilization. Renaissance brought unprecedented prosperity to literature and art and gave birth to modern bourgeois culture. The Renaissance promoted the scientific revolution and the development of productive forces.

3. The Renaissance played an important role in the historical development of Europe and had a great influence in Europe:

First, people, mainly educated people, were liberated from the shackles of Christian theology in the Middle Ages and carried forward the optimistic and enterprising spirit of striving to create secular happiness. It is under the guidance of this spirit that the bourgeoisie created the modern capitalist world.

Second, the Renaissance destroyed the rigid scholasticism system, advocated scientific methods and experiments, and laid the foundation for the great development of natural science in 17, 18 and 19 centuries.

Third, the charming and exquisite works of art and literary masterpieces created during the Renaissance have become priceless treasures in the treasure house of human art, and they will shine forever.

Fourth, the Renaissance cleared the way for future ideological progress. It broke the centralized situation of scholasticism and led to the rise of various secular philosophies. It also promoted the development of political theory and provided ideological sources for later theories such as natural rights theory, social contract theory, people's revolutionary right, people's sovereignty and separation of powers.

There were some defects in Renaissance.

First, the Renaissance was a bourgeois transformation of the old superstructure, with class and historical limitations. It advocates the bourgeois world outlook and the theory of human nature, which is far from the thoughts and demands of the working people.

Second, although artists, literati and scholars in this period showed and carried forward the humanistic spirit, and recognized and exposed the corruption and evil of the Catholic Church and the Pope, they were still willing to accept the protection and support of the Pope and the Church, but they were not completely divorced and unwilling to embark on the road of religious reform.

Third, humanists mostly retain the superstitious and backward things kept in ancient times, such as magic, witchcraft and astrology.

In a word, the Renaissance is a great cultural revolution in human history. It laid the foundation of modern bourgeois culture, made ideological and public opinion preparations for modern bourgeois revolution, and initiated a new era of bourgeois revolution.