MARS 1F90 Lecture 10: MARS 1F90 lecture 10 (9) winter 2016
16 Mar 2016
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Caught in the cross re between the protestant reformation and the catholic. He shared so many ideas of protestant religion. Remained forever tied to the catholic church. Erasmus was a true humanist, focussed on humanity. Said the fact that humans have free will, can make the choice between good and evil. The end of the unity if christian europe. Europeans didn"t think of nationality, but primarily as faith (christian, jewish, muslim, etc) United in terms of language (latin, vernacular), in terms of what they believe (all. Catholic: the italian renaissance crosses the alps. The basis of european unity up to the reformation. These ideas spread past the alps and had people thinking di erently about the church. Messengers (would bring messages to people, travellers) Had a huge impact on spreading ideas. Books were very expensive to copy by hand. Printing press and humanism in germany (humanists were intellectuals of renaissance)
