In this updated edition of his classic account, Charles Nauert charts the rise of humanism as the distinctive culture of the social, political and intellectual elites in Renaissance Europe. He traces ...

Petrarch was one of the founding fathers of Renaissance humanism, yet the nature and significance of his ideas are still widely debated. In this book, Gur Zak examines two central issues in Petrarch's ...

His own educational vision was deeply influenced by Renaissance humanism. By the time of his death, the Jesuits were directing 33 colleges and universities. Today there are 112 Jesuit institutions of ...

Written in the mid-fifteenth century, Pope Pius II’s Commentaries are the only known autobiography of a reigning pontiff and a fundamental text in the history of Renaissance humanism.

Humanists reject the idea or belief in a supernatural being such as God. This means that Humanists class themselves as agnostic or atheist. Humanists have no belief in an afterlife, and so they ...

Among the Welsh Renaissance humanists, there was a desire to ensure that their language, like the languages of classical antiquity, should remain perfect in lineage, richness and purity.