[34] See page 346.
[35] The great Passion Play at Ober Ammergau in Germany is the modern survival and representative of this medieval religious drama.
[36] Everyman, one of the best of the morality plays, has recently been revived before large audiences.
[37] See the illustration, page 408.
[38] Tacitus, Germania, 22.
CHAPTER XXV
THE RENAISSANCE [1]
209. MEANING OF THE RENAISSANCE
LATER PERIOD OF THE MIDDLE AGES
The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, covering the later period of the Middle Ages, are commonly known as those of the Renaissance. This French word means Rebirth or Revival. It is a convenient term for all the changes in society, law, and government, in science, philosophy, and religion, in literature and art which gradually transformed medieval civilization into that of modern times.