The Renaissance Was a New Development, Strikingly Different from the Preceding Middle Ages

Was the Renaissance a new development or was it just a continuation of the Middle Ages? The Renaissance was a new development completely different from the middle ages. Even though many scholars claim that much of the ideas of the Renaissance came from the middle ages and that their were many progressive changes during the middle ages, the Renaissance had enough unique qualities to justify itself as a completely separate period of time in history.
During the Renaissance there were rises of new social classes completely different then before. …