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Article: Humanists and Humanism
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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HUMANISTS AND HUMANISM
HUMANISTS AND HUMANISM.
Humanism was the dominant intellectual movement among the educated classes of Europe from the Renaissance to the seventeenth century. The term reflects the belief that certain academic subjects known since ancient times as the
studia humanitatis
(humanistic studies) must shape the education and culture of those who rule society. Humanism was closely linked to the Renaissance desire to broaden knowledge about antiquity as a means of recovering not only more information but also the inner spirit that had made Greece and Rome flourish. The "humanistic" subjects were five in number: grammar (chiefly Ciceronian Latin),
rhetoric (the art of ...
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