25-The Renaissance. Humanism. Cultura I

The Renaissance - Writing workshop

The modern as opposed to the medieval outlook began in Italy with the movement called the Renaissance. At first, only a few individuals, notably Petrarch, had this outlook, but during the fifteenth century, it spread to the great majority of cultivated Italians, both lay and clerical.
(Russell, 1991, p. 483)

• How does Bertrand Russell define the Renaissance?

• What is meant by the term "modern outlook" as opposed to the "medieval outlook"?

Poll

To what extent were the fall of Constantinople and patronage the main factors for the origin of the Renaissance in Italy?

• To a a great extent

• To a small extent

Poll

To what extent did England’s geographic position contribute to the late arrival of the Renaissance in England?

• To a great extent

• To a small extent

Humanism - writing workshop

Answer the following question taking into account the source below. 

To what extent did the English humanists have an impact on education?

​The statutes [of St Paul's School] laid down that classical Latin and Greek were to be taught, and that the best classical authors were to take the place of the old medieval disciplines; and these principles spread slowly to other English schools.

In contrast to medieval Christian ideals it (Humanism) aimed at self-reliance and self-expression, and the development of personality; and the emphasis was transferred from the education of bookish clerks to the production of scholar-gentlemen, cultured laymen trained to be men of affairs. By 1531, these ideals found expression in England in The Boke named the Governour by Sir Thomas Elyot, a book on the training, not of clerics for the service of the Church, but of the governing classes for the service of the State. He emphasized the importance of physical training, he advocated the use of the mother tongue in learning Latin and Greek, and he appealed often to concrete experience. (Myers, 1963 pp. 231-232)

Humanism - Writing Workshop

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