Humanism and Continuities in the Transition to the Early Modern
Ronald G. Witt
The defining goal of humanism was to recapture in the writings beauty poetry and prose antiquity. humanists articulated for first time European history modern ethic which life lay people had at least equal value that clerics God's sight. This article expounds substantial continuities between fourteenth-century its medieval antecedents literary culture, belie representations humanist movement as a categorical break with past. They created secondary school curriculum focused on ancient Greek Roman authors dominated Western education down twentieth century. philological techniques hermeneutical methods developed proved fundamental wave religious reform movements swept over subcontinent sixteenth geographical astronomical works it made available provided vital spurs exploration earth. Finally, humanists' highly sense historical perspective helped Europeans gain control past by conceiving time-differentiated series social, political, economic, religious, intellectual changes, also, objectifying present view society politics.
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