HUMANISM

THOMAS MORE

RENAISSANCE

Inovatio as renovatio Rebirth of antiquity Historical awareness (Petrarch):

Antiquity (=model)-Middle Age (=dark/barbarian)-the Modern Age

(=Renaissance now called early modern age)

Renaissance new elements Imanentism ; individualism (rewriting the heroic

model)

Man in the centre and a measure of all things Geographical discoveries-conquests, Economic development:

Cities-crafts, banking, public sphere Industry (England- eclosure : sheep eat e Trade- new trade routes-Mediterranean, round Africa,

across the Atlantic; spices and silk, English trade with the Ottoa Epire ad Aerica platatios ARTS- sculpture, painting, literature

Golden means ideal proportions

HUMANISTS

Name invented later Philologists- classical texts (re)discovered, interpreted,

cleansed and edited, translated

=> AD FONTES- classical texts= truth and model Position: teachers, secretaries, public figures- Humanistic education :2ndary schools and colleges and

then universities- > humanistic revolution

Contemplatio versus Negotium=> involvement in the public sphere

philology and political action

HUMANIST EDUCATION

New institutions (colleges, grammar schools, then universities : Italy [Bologna, Padova then all over Italy])

New subject matter : a variety of texts from the Roman and Greek antiquity plus their contexts, new subjects: history, literature, rhetoric, moral philosophy, geography, rhetoric (Cicero)-disputations =major activity, but also dancing and theatre => the birth of the humanities; 2nd important field : natural philosophy to train doctors, development of science

The importance of RHETORIC AND ELOQUENCE outlet for the new education: civil service, at court, in the public sphere => a ew odel of accoplishet : the courtier (Castiglone), a new norm : civilitas (Erasmus)