HIST-308 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Scholasticism
21 Feb 2020
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Humanism is defined to be the cultural expression of the renaissance. Its roots go back to late medieval ages. Humanism was developed in italian universities by the early 14th century. The subjects were rhetoric, moral philosophy and ethics, poetry, and history. There is no crisis on human values and experience and it was a reaction against the old scholastic curriculum of grammar, logic, an rhetoric along with arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. These were the foundations of the old scholastic medieval curriculum. Humanism was more than just education in the renaissance. It was a large body of knowledge based on ancient sources and had different attitudes which included it"s style and architecture, art, and literature. Humanism is crucial and essential to understanding certain elements of the renaissance. This is about recovery and study and transmission and how to interpret classical antiquity.
