History 2403E Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Johannes Gutenberg, Scholasticism, Scriptorium

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Ad fontes = back to the sources (battle cry) Humanism: someone who was secular (non-religious), someone believe in individualist, realist, material world, believes in the potential of humans and mankind to control their own destiny or world: historians argue that humanism is best understood as a philosophy: Draw a dividing line between the medieval world and the renaissance. Medieval world lives under a veil of faith, categorized themselves in corporate ways and always with a group or community. Humanism was the sense of categorizing themselves in a more personal sense: other historians argue that humanism is best understood as a methodology: The word humanist did not come into existence until the. Roots of the word humanist can actually be found in the latin word of humanitas" , and was used by writers in a set of cultural values that someone derives for a liberal arts education. Studia humanitas: programs of study of grammar, rhetoric, philosophy, poetry, history.

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