RENAISSANCE
HUMANISM
i. Jacquerie – France
ii.
Peasants –
iii.
Ciompi –
i. Meister Eckhart (1260 – 1327)
ii. John Wyclif (1330 – 84)
iii. John Huss (1369 – 1415)
i. Trivium – grammar, rhetoric, logic
ii. Quadrivium – arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music
i. Grammar – ancient Latin and Greek
1. Study of philology
2. Textual criticism
3. Valla, 15th Century scholar – “Donation of Constantine” (forgery)
ii. History – accepted past on own terms
1. Showed ability of man to triumph over fate
2. Suggested solutions for contemporary problems
iii. Rhetoric – practical and useful modes of eloquence
iv. Moral Philosophy – a serious author was moral teacher
1. Vergerio (1249 – 1420) defined Liberal Arts as studies “worthy of a free man”
2. Helped men “attain and practice virtue” (Civic Humanism)
v. Poetry – gave eloquence to convince men to do good Mirandola (1463 – 93) “Oration on the Dignity of Man”
https://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/oration.html