Renaissance humanism

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cultural movement intellectual movement philosophical current

Renaissance humanism was an intellectual movement of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance that emphasized the study of classical antiquity, human potential, and secular learning, laying foundations for modern Western thought.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	cultural movement → intellectual movement → philosophical current →
associatedWithFigure	Coluccio Salutati → Desiderius Erasmus → Francesco Petrarca → Giovanni Boccaccio → Leonardo Bruni → Lorenzo Valla → Marsilio Ficino → Niccolò Machiavelli → Pico della Mirandola →
contrastedWith	medieval scholasticism →
coreFocus	human potential → secular learning → studia humanitatis → study of classical antiquity →
emergedInCentury	14th century →
emergedInPeriod	late Middle Ages →
emphasizedDiscipline	grammar → history → moral philosophy → poetry → rhetoric →
flourishedInCentury	15th century → 16th century →
hadViewOnReligion	sought harmony between classical learning and Christianity →
historicalPeriod	Renaissance →
influenced	Reformation thought → Renaissance art → Renaissance education → modern Western philosophy → political thought in early modern Europe → scientific revolution →
influencedRegion	Western Europe →
legacy	development of secular scholarship → foundations for modern Western thought → modern concept of the humanities →
method	philological analysis of classical texts → recovery and editing of ancient manuscripts →
originatedIn	Italian city-states → Italy →
promoted	education of lay elites → revival of ancient moral philosophy → use of classical models in literature →
relatedTo	Christian humanism → civic humanism →
valuedConcept	civic virtue → critical reading of texts → dignity of man → education → eloquence → individualism →
valuedLanguage	Greek → Latin →

Referenced by (37)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Coluccio Salutati → Francesco Petrarca → Giovanni Boccaccio → Justus Lipsius ("Northern Renaissance humanism") → Leonardo Bruni → Lorenzo Valla → Lorenzo de' Medici → Marsilio Ficino → Michel de Montaigne → Niccolò Machiavelli → Pico della Mirandola →	movement
Ab Urbe Condita → Cicero → Coluccio Salutati ("Italian Renaissance humanism") → Francesco Petrarca ("European Renaissance literature") → Greek Antiquity → Lactantius ("Renaissance humanists") → Lorenzo Valla → Pico della Mirandola → Plutarch → Seneca the Younger →	influenced
Age of Enlightenment → Enlightenment philosophy → Florentine school ("Humanism") → Francis Bacon → Renaissance Latin ("Ciceronianism") → Socinians ("Italian Renaissance humanism") → The Advancement of Learning → Western canon of art → Western esotericism →	influencedBy
Tuscans →	contributedTo
Michael Servetus →	fieldOfWork
Scientific Revolution →	hasCause
Renaissance Platonism →	hasMainInfluence
Vulgate →	influenceOn
French Renaissance →	relatedConcept
Christian Kabbalah →	relatedTo