The movement we know as the Renaissance used to be regarded as the replacement of one system of ideas and literary and visual conventions (the "e;Gothic"e;) with another system (the "e;Classical"e;). However, it has become increasingly obvious that Gothic and Classical coexisted for a long time, and also that they interacted, producing hybrid forms not only of thought, art, literature and especially architecture, but also of language, literature, music, philosophy, law and religion.
