HUMAN-111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Renaissance Learning, Oligarchy, Vatican City
12 Oct 2020
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Europe had a thriving and sophisticated culture from the 12th century onwards not just during the renaissance!! Intellectual culture looked different later, because it was sponsored by and for the church before. Learning was to advance religion, book learning was almost exclusively by the clergy, laymen didn"t really learn books at all. It was appropriate to learn to read if you were part of the clergy, but not if you were a laymen, even the king probably didn"t know how to read. If you were interested in intellectual learning then you joined the church, women didn"t really have this option some nunneries taught reading, but very rare. Invention of the university technology, queen of the sciences o ultimate goal was the training of the clergy. There is lots of learning in europe, which is oriented in a particular way and towards a certain type of people. Secularizing learning, taking it outside of the universities.
