Pakistan, July 25 -- A change in social consciousness and that of ideologies emerged during the end of the Middle Ages that gave way for the renaissance era to play a part in spreading arts and literature in Europe.

Perhaps, it was the rediscovery of the classical Greek and Roman culture and literature that added value to this period.

While historians are divided over the exact era when the renaissance came into existence, it is somewhere in the late 1300s when the Roman Catholic Christian principle began losing its grasp over the society and was gradually replaced by the ideologies and philosophies of Cicero, Aristotle and Seneca - who publicised Greek and Latin ideas. The fall of Constantinople in 1453 compelled scholars of this area ...