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  • Crisis and convergence: The Renaissance emerges from specific late-medieval conjunctures: demographic shock after the Black Death, fiscal pressures on polities, the compression of trade routes, and new patterns of patronage. Miron emphasizes contingency—cities such as Florence, Venice, and Milan were laboratories where mercantile wealth, civic competition, and courtly display created dense markets for visual and textual culture.
  • Technology and craft: Technical advances—improved metallurgy, oil-based pigments, advances in shipbuilding, the spread of printed typography—are treated as infrastructural causes, not mere epiphenomena. The printing press (c. 1450s) is central: it compressed the circulation time of texts, standardized spelling and grammar, and multiplied commentaries so that argumentation itself became public and cumulative.
  • Labor and workshops: Workshops are sites of knowledge transmission. Miron foregrounds artisanal apprenticeship networks where empirical observation, mathematical proportion, and anatomical dissection circulated alongside guild regulations. The master’s studio functioned as laboratory, school, and small firm.
  • The Black Death, which ravaged Europe in the 14th century, led to significant social, economic, and cultural changes.
  • The rise of city-states in Italy, such as Florence, Venice, and Milan, created centers of trade, commerce, and innovation.
  • The rediscovery of classical texts, including works by ancient Greeks and Romans, inspired a new wave of intellectual curiosity.

2.3 Politics, Patronage, and Power