HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Christian Humanism, Early Christianity, Classical Antiquity
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Model of humanism as a kind of ideology adopted by the wealthy urban merchants as a guide to life apply as well in the north, but a bit differently. Humanism, therefore, the models of secular behavior and moral philosophy based on ethic was a natural attraction to them. It was also a guide to those who were born to certain positions, and to those who adopted a certain position, like priests. Italy (the south) was where the humanism ideas developed first and most fully, because italy was the most civilized and sophisticated society in europe. In the north, there was the similar condition, but the diff culture and society created a diff form of humanism called northern humanism or. Because in italy there has always been secular education, it was easier to associate with pagan rome and the city of italy. Urban life was ceased during the dark age, right after the collapse of the.
