HIST1601 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Florentine Dialect, Merchant Prince, Leonardo Bruni
HIST1601 – Week 2 Lecture
How did the Silk Road impact Europe?
The ‘eaissae ‘eirth – 1350-1550 - Western Europe
Italian, Northern,
• Historiography – the study of the study of history
• Petrarch believed previous era was one of darkness
• Protestants as a precursor to Reformation
• Enlightenment writers was awakening of human reason
• Disoery of orld ad disoery of a
• Jacob Burckhardt – Medieal period as Dark Age
• Revival of interest in classical authors or Rome and Greece
• Rise of individualism, optimism
History is not just a long linear process
Humanism:
• Rationalist outlook or system
• A rise of focus on self instead of the divine or supernatural
• Change in mentality
• Emphasis on practical learning
• Accuracy and realism
• Language is a cultural artefact
• Devotion to liberal arts
Leonardo Bruni:
• Promoting forgotten Greek texts
• Humanist historian
• Translated a number of texts
Lorenzo Valla:
• Priest, scholar and humanist
• Analysed documents
• Causes:
Changing economic and social structures
• Growth of commerce
• Rise of new monarchies
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Document Summary
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