People began to study classical thought during the renaissance to

people began to study classical thought during the renaissance to break with the christianity of the middle ages, there was something else apart from serving god. they are breaking also with the ecclesiastical monopoly of culture, there was a great belief in humanism and the power of the individual, and art focused on people and landscapes. there were profound changes in art, science and technology, and literature, chaucer's "canterbury tales" is an example of this.

nothing certain is known about what happened, but it seems that the country declined gradually, perhaps due to bad government, or, more likely, due to a series of bad harvests, which resulted in widespread and recurrent famine.