‘Arabick to the People’
Derek Baker
When I accepted, a year ago, Professor Hay’s invitation to join ‘his team of main speakers, and contribute paper this volume it was not without hesitation trepidation. Religion, in some its aspects, knew little about: Humanism virtually nothing. Like many another historian use the term discussion twelfth-century renaissance, but hardly any articulated fashion, or with precise meaning, from time have paid passing acknowledgement Renaissance humanism—a nodding acquaintance at best. was, however, reassured by prospect sabbatical term, proximity Hay himself: leisure proper guidance all would be made clear for first new decade. In fact, otium has been replaced negotium , however much fifteenth-century humanist might approve change, whole glory man lying activity, as Vittorino de Feltre observed, find myself better state now than ago—like Auden’s ‘Artistic souls that lie out weed pollen belt need sympathy is felt’.
Studies in Church History