HIS243H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Isotta Nogarola, Quintilian, Leonardo Bruni

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Universities in the renaissance era was simply professional schools. Scholasticism: efforts by theologians to use classical learning to redefine theology. Active in politics & civic society or the duty to developing themselves. Values: virtue, happiness, wisdom, justice, compassion, integrity, discipline, loyalty. Fairly conventional middle class morality (but obviously did not think of themselves like that at that current point in time). However, earlier forms of history were taught by "the chronicle"; a record of events that had very little commentary. b. Chronicle is "god"s history"; a notation of what has happened. Biographies of human history brings upon a new light of the importance of individuals. Virtu: (in italian); vir (latin root): man ; manliness. Gendered concept of fighting against fate or accepting fate. Women need not apply to humanism; deeply misogynistic. Poetry: to recover past human experiences (emotions; from the roman time). Rhetoric: writing / speaking persuasive a. b. c. d. Judicial: for the use of the court room (law)

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