SMC229H1 Lecture : Jan 31st lecture
14 Feb 2012
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medieval and dark ages religious texts were mostly studies. People who were illiterate would focus on trying to learn religious texts. not as interested in the knowledge that greeks and romans were. renaissance was thought of as rebirth of classical knowledge, although they were not aware of this at the time. renaissance is categorized by a few genius inventions. ideal that knowledge and learning was lost since classical era> way to find it was through texts> thought knowledge was in the literate> shows how much they valued book learning and texts. learning to read at this time meant learning to read in latin or greek. literary was still very restrictive since most books were written in latin. separations of concepts of learning and learning religious ideals> separation of knowledge of faith and knowledge of texts> important for humanists.
