HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Erasmus, American Revolution, Scholasticism
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Beneffitted from what was happening in italy. Goods from venice etc sold in north. Northern towns grow by long distance trade. Group of individuals whos job it was to make money. Need of class for some form of culture. Something that would help provide definition (cid:1) What education there was was directed to clergy. Renaissance needed to come about by humanistic education. Instead of being applied to pagan texts of ancient rome there wwere applied to christian texts of early church. No real difference except for text that was written. Difference in culture, difference in social structure. Growth of group of scholars trained like italians but worldview was. Had to be a connection between this world and the next (cid:1) Him and brother sent to school run by laymen, scholarly whatever, christian scholars. Sent to university of paris, as a monk. Hated scholasticism: application of aristitilism on learning. Became most famous and brilliant writer of his time.
