Scholasticism Replaced by Humanismhttp://www.mmdtkw.org/RenRomUnit03Humanism.html
Topics for Unit 3
A selective list of major actors -- selective because it is impossible to note them all. So these are some representative threads in the weave of humanism:Wrong books!! Popular books that get the Renaissance all wrong: Manchester's A World Lit Only by Fire and Tuchman's The March of Folly.Scholasticism -- the prevalent thought process that had to be changed. Aquinas -- last scholastic or first humanist? Petrarch / Avignon -- Petrarch delivers the method Humanism flow chart Can humanism and religion coexist? "Classical" as "pagan" whereas southerners regarded classical religion and philosophy as another (parallel) source for Christianity. Italian Renaissance artists could put classical figures into religious art and not blink an eye -- e.g., the Sybils in Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel ceiling frescoes. This is one reason why northen Protestantism rejected imagery.]Bessarion and other refugees deliver the Greek texts -- effect in the West of the fall of Constantinople Guicciardini and modern history -- fact-checking Pico della Mirandola -- brilliant mind, but too much puffery -- early death Leonardo Bruni -- too reasonable for his own good Lorenzo Valla -- debunks the Donation but later works for the Papacy Julius II -- "Warrior Pope" and harsh master of artists
