The origins of humanism
Nicholas Mann
Any account of the past is necessarily coloured by preconceptions, aspirations and, above all, knowledge or ignorance scholar who produces it. The terms and concepts that historians use to order explain objects their inquiry are neither fixed nor value-free, but evolving often highly subjective elements in process revealing gradually leads us a better understanding Labels such as Dark Ages Renaissance, which affixed whole periods European history, while they convenient for purposes historiographical exposition, may tell only part truth about those segments purport characterize. more we learn period following decline Rome, less dark uncultured it appears; inquire into what was reborn fourteenth fifteenth centuries, become aware vital continuities with past.
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