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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Eggert, Katherine

Titel

How to Sustain Humanism

Ist Teil von

• Disknowledge, 2015, p.14-54

Ort / Verlag

United States: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• From its beginnings in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Italy, humanism aimed both to revolutionize learning practice and to create nations of educated men imbued with civic virtue. That optimistic program, however, had a fairly short reign. In England, a country that came late to the Renaissance, humanism was in its true ascendancy for less than a century. Arthur Kinney, in fact, dates humanism’s English preeminence only from 1512, when John Colet chartered St. Paul’s School in London on the principles of Christian humanist education, to 1605, when the publication of Francis Bacon’sThe Advancement of Learningbrought home to England—in