HIS109Y1 Lecture 9: Lecture 9-Nothern Humanism-Oct 12
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Papacy had concerns: overwhelmed by advance of reformation. Italian humanism and the petri dish was beginning to change in a way that northern. French (and later german and spanish) soldiers stayed in italy and stayed there. Read literature etc. , brought with them another cultural model and a way of thinking that was grounded in an appreciation for classical antiquity; desire to use this in the context of their own lives. Empire and monarchy were deeply entrenched in cultural perspective suited the government and economic structure. Intellectual models were of the old feudal world. Other elements that required humanism to flourish. Church sustained what learning there was in the collapse of rome. Educational establishment dominated by church and clergy. Europe was still under a theological lens. Secularism in italian states had to alter in order to fit this new world. Not look at pagan rome, but look at period of early church fathers who were trained in.
