
Middle Ages 9: Knowledge and Ignorance in the Middle Ages (and Today)
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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The Scholastics, the Renaissance Humanists
Humanist scholars tended to a reject and to deride the sort of obsession with logic and metaphysic. And they wanted to go back to the fluent and poetic style of the ancient romans. Many renaissance scholars also loved to mock the sort of excessive erudition, the obsession with tradition.
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