ABSTRACT
This chapter explains the awarding of new meanings to the Renaissance and the Reformation. Some features of Renaissance and the Reformation fail to demonstrate directly the West's intrinsic uniqueness in its capacity as a civilization to reflect upon itself and in that effort to recover a past that endangered the very existence of the traditional order. The chapter explains how do the extraordinary movements reveal the uniqueness of Western civilization. It suggests a comprehensive view of the movement and an end to any uncertainty regarding its true measure. Rather than an end to a long period, the Renaissance, in its new appreciation of the globe and our ability to move around in it, should be seen as the beginning of our global age. In short, it is the portal to the modern age of connectedness. And this interpretation is secured by associating the expansiveness of the late Renaissance, in the sixteenth century, with the Age of Discovery.
