Origins and Values of the Northern Renaissance
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Prioritize simple piety and early Christian texts over Scholasticism.
The following is an excerpt from Desiderius Erasmus's 'The Praise of Folly' (1511): 'As for the theologians, perhaps it would be better to pass them over in silence... so self-confident are they that they could stay in hell with a number of their syllogisms.' Erasmus's critique in this passage is most indicative of the Northern Renaissance's tendency to...
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Explore the fundamental shift from Italian to Northern Humanism, focusing on Christian Humanism and the works of Erasmus and Thomas More.
Origins and Values of the Northern Renaissance
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Prioritize simple piety and early Christian texts over Scholasticism.
The following is an excerpt from Desiderius Erasmus's 'The Praise of Folly' (1511): 'As for the theologians, perhaps it would be better to pass them over in silence... so self-confident are they that they could stay in hell with a number of their syllogisms.' Erasmus's critique in this passage is most indicative of the Northern Renaissance's tendency to...
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Explore the fundamental shift from Italian to Northern Humanism, focusing on Christian Humanism and the works of Erasmus and Thomas More.