Word: humanisme
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The slow uplift in German literature from the fourteenth to the fifteenth century was explained by the indirect reception of humanism in Germany. Humanism came in, not as worship of the beautiful, but as a species of didacticism, which was monopolized by scholars. The people neither received the fruits of...
In the second day's session, Professor Kuno Francke read a paper on "A Forerunner of Bunyan in the Twelfth Century." He described the didactic poetry of the Middle Ages, with special reference to the tendency toward the Reformation and Humanism. He read specimens from a French monk Jean d...
"The growth of historical studies at Harvard College is a subject of special educational interest, for it illustrates a process of academic development which is now in progress throughout the country at large. This process marks the rise of modern studies, as distinguished, on the one hand, from classic humanism...
Some obscurity rests over the earliest history of the Edinburgh foundation, but a positive date is reached, April 24, 1852, when King James VI. signed a charter giving power to the town council of Edinburgh to provide for higher education in humanity and in the tongues, in philosophy, theology, medicine...