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    Renaissance humanism began in 14th-15th century Italy and emphasized classical learning and values. Humanists studied Greek and Latin classics rather than medieval scholastic interpretations, seeking the original sources of knowledge. They believed the ancient Greco-Roman world represented the height of human intellectual achievement and sought to revive its wisdom. Prominent humanist scholars included Roger Ascham, Thomas Elyot, and Desiderius Erasmus, who edited the New Testament and wrote satires criticizing the Catholic church. Humanism spread across Europe in the 15th-16th centuries and influenced fields like education, art, philosophy, and literature.

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    Renaissance humanism began in 14th-15th century Italy and emphasized classical learning and values. Humanists studied Greek and Latin classics rather than medieval scholastic interpretations, seeking the original sources of knowledge. They believed the ancient Greco-Roman world represented the height of human intellectual achievement and sought to revive its wisdom. Prominent humanist scholars included Roger Ascham, Thomas Elyot, and Desiderius Erasmus, who edited the New Testament and wrote satires criticizing the Catholic church. Humanism spread across Europe in the 15th-16th centuries and influenced fields like education, art, philosophy, and literature.

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    Renaissance humanism began in 14th-15th century Italy and emphasized classical learning and values. Humanists studied Greek and Latin classics rather than medieval scholastic interpretations, seeking the original sources of knowledge. They believed the ancient Greco-Roman world represented the height of human intellectual achievement and sought to revive its wisdom. Prominent humanist scholars included Roger Ascham, Thomas Elyot, and Desiderius Erasmus, who edited the New Testament and wrote satires criticizing the Catholic church. Humanism spread across Europe in the 15th-16th centuries and influenced fields like education, art, philosophy, and literature.

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    Renaissance humanism began in 14th-15th century Italy and emphasized classical learning and values. Humanists studied Greek and Latin classics rather than medieval scholastic interpretations, seeking the original sources of knowledge. They believed the ancient Greco-Roman world represented the height of human intellectual achievement and sought to revive its wisdom. Prominent humanist scholars included Roger Ascham, Thomas Elyot, and Desiderius Erasmus, who edited the New Testament and wrote satires criticizing the Catholic church. Humanism spread across Europe in the 15th-16th centuries and influenced fields like education, art, philosophy, and literature.

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    Renaissance Humanism

    Classical Period
     5th-4th century
     Athens
     Athens emerged as the most powerful of the Greek city-states
     Ruled by the famous ruler, Pericles
     Tremendous flowering of the arts and letters
     Disciplines such as political thought, aesthetics, physics, ethics, linguistics, biology, logic and
    mathematics developed.
     Continued zeal for classical study
     Developed a broad learning ( humanities ,grammar,rhetoric,poetry,moral philosophy)
     Study of classical texts
     God created the universe, but it was humans who developed
     Beauty, a popular topic, was held to represent

    • Ideal of education
    – Study of Greek, Latin, classics, use of the vernacular promoted
    – The complete education of the gentleman promoted
    – Important figures: Roger Ascham, Sir Thomas Elyot
    Roger Ascham (c. 1514-68)
    • Princess Elizabeth’s tutor in Greek & Latin
    • The Schoolmaster (1570)
    – Simple, lucid, English prose
    – Offers a complete program of humanistic education
    – Is also an evocation of the ideals of education
    – Themes: psychology of learning, education of the whole person, & ideal moral &
    intellectual personality
    • Toxophilus (“Lover of the Bow”, 1545)
    – Written in the form of a dialogue
    – The first book on archery in English
    Thomas Elyot (c. 1490-1546)
    • Championed English prose
    • Member of Thomas More’s circle
    • Best-known work: The Book Named The Governor (1531)
    – A plan for the upbringing of gentlemen’s sons who were to bear authority in the future
    – This book contributed to the ideal of the Renaissance gentleman
    • Castel of Helth (Offers a regimen of health)
    • Produced the first English dictionary of classical Latin
    Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1467-1536)
    • Also called Erasmus of Rotterdam
    • Dutch humanist and scholar
    • Thomas More was his good friend
    • First editor of the New Testament
    • Moriae Encomium (The Praise of Folly, 1511)
    – Title is a pun on the name of Thomas More
    – Folly ironically praises herself
    – Satire on corruption and ignorance of the clergy
    • Other works: Adagia, Apophthegmata, Colloquia
    Concerns of Humanism
    • God created the universe, but it was humans who developed it.
    • Beauty, a popular topic, was held to represent a deep inner virtue; an essential element in the
    path towards God
    • Opposed to the contemporary philosophers, the Scholastics (Thomas Aquinas etc)
    • Emphasized study of primary texts rather than interpretations (“ab fontes”—to the sources)
    • Studied classical Latin, not medieval
    Concerns of Humanism
    • Held that the ancient Greco-Roman world was the pinnacle of human intellectual achievement
    • Return to the classics to re-establish past glory of Europe that has now crumbled under
    invasions
    • Attempts to join the classical values with Christian values (Christian Humanism)
    • Crisis in humanism was the trial of Galileo
    – Galileo supported Copernicus’s heliocentric universe; for his free thinking was put under
    house arrest!
    Concerns of Humanism
    Humanism favoured
    • Philosophy (against Science)
    • The Moral & the Practical (against the Aesthetic)
    • Reason (against Instinct)
    • All round learning (against Specialized learning)
    da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man
    • The Vitruvian Man is a world-renowned drawing created by Leonardo da Vinci around the year
    1487.
    • It shows clearly the effect writers of Antiquity had on Renaissance thinkers.
    • The drawing is based on the correlations of ideal human proportions with geometry described
    by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius.
    • Vitruvius described the human figure as being the principal source of proportion among the
    Classical orders of architecture.
    Early Renaissance Literature
     Classical and romantic tendencies strengthened towards the end of the century
    o Classical Influences
     Study of classical literature
     Greek and Latin influences on language
    o Romantic tendencies
     Quest for remote, wonderful, beautiful
     Spirit of adventure
     Revolt against past
     Freshness of spirit

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