History 2403E Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Papal Legate, Exsurge Domine, Katharina Von Bora
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Week 7 humanism to luther october 29 2012. Studia humanitatis: man as the measure of all things , christian scholarship of liberal arts, philology and textual criticism (all books, renewed classical studies, architecture - alberti. Classical architecture, trying to bring back the golden ages of greece and. Italian scholars: lorenzo valla 1407-57, 1444 elegancies of the latin language. Interested in the origin of words and their proper uses. Constantine"s word proved rome"s superiority over secular clergy and the church: but this book talked about feudalism which did not exist, giovanni pico della mirandola 1463-94, 1486 900 theses. Wanted to debate this things: this is what people did back then if they wanted to get a discussion going, although this debate was forbidden. Astrology does not affect anything: early humanist, critically analysing classical text and fixing them then reprinting them, humanist, anti-papist. Do not like how the pope is behaving: nationalist. Italian humanist vernacular literature: francesco petrarch [1304-74]