KP141 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Erasmus, John Calvin, Petrarch
16 Mar 2016
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Renaissance, reformaion, and the age of enlightenment: the roots of physical educaion. The term renaissance has been applied to the period of change within. European society associated with the 14th century through the early 16th. Translated from its french origins, renaissance means rebirth . Renaissance thinkers believe the key to future civilizaion rests in the wriings of the ancient greeks and romans the geographical locaion of this approach was centered in southern europe, speciically in italy. From their examinaion of the ancient manuscripts, renaissance scholars constructed the ideal of the renaissance man , one who was versaile, skilled in weaponry, socially adept, strong in body, and learned. The renaissance movement was an eliist movement, and renaissance literature and art were for the literate, aluent and privileged. Early pioneers of renaissance thinking even though it didn"t extend much into physical educaion. He did so by establishing a school because he worked for a noble, the.
