HIST-338 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Manuel Chrysoloras, Franciscans, Latin Literature
28 Nov 2020
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It was hardly an entire philosophy or an organized body of thought, that codification would follow in later generations. More than anything else, the term described an inchoate generational mood, much like the romanticism of the early nineteenth century. Humanism began as an attitude of youthful rebellion against the worst excesses of medieval synthesism, an insistence on the intrinsic value of the specific, the individual, the solitary and unique. humanism had much in common with late medieval franciscanism. They recovered large bodies of near-lost classical writing, in both latin and greek, wrote extensive and sensitive commentaries on what they found. But there were other aspects to their passions as well. For example, in their zeal to emulate the ancients, many humanist enthusiasts evinced a desire to purify the latin language, scholars and churchmen had been speaking and writing for a thousand years, of its medieval.
