Literary theory: the good, the bad, and the incomprehensible (Part 1)
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The Renaissance and the Humanities
Before the Renaissance, even literature to them wouldn't have been of that much interest. To be a poet wasn't something you could look at as a full-time job until later on. Even Chaucer still had to have his job in politics. You couldn't sustain himself full-time being a poet and that was in the 1300s. Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine were famous patrons of the arts - she was one of the reasons that we have the courtly traditions still alive today.
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