Scholastic Humanism and the Unification of Europe (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: R. W. Southern
- First Published: 1995
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: Approximately 1070-1150
- Setting: Western Europe—primarily France, Italy, and England
- Principal Characters: William of Conches, Peter Lombard, Irnerius, Gratian
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Intellectuals, Europe or Europeans, Schools or school life, Christianity, Humanism, Renaissance, Middle Ages, Learning or scholarship
- Locales: France, Europe, England, Italy
“Humanism,” as a word, has several modern senses which are not only irrelevant to the main subject of this book, but directly opposed to it. In modern usage a “humanist” is someone concerned only with the human world, someone who does not accept the authority of the divine: this sense is not known before the nineteenth century. “Humanism” can also mean devotion to the subjects now known as “the humanities,” primarily art, philosophy, history and literature; while the phrase “Classical humanist” had for a time the relatively strict meaning of a member of the...
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