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231 | Sarah Bakewell on the History of Humanism
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Humanists of the 1300s
The 14th century was really a terrible time in much of Europe, not least because the plague spread through all those areas. And so what made those two figures and their contemporaries specifically humanist in your well is it is the way they saw themselves as recovering the past. So there was there was certainly that sense of hope in the future. Not much hope in their present.
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