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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 Renaissance Humanists

renaissance thinkers focused on individual achievement and greatness. They celebrated figures like alexander the great and julius caesar. And in all these ways, the renaissance really was significantly anti intellectual. Rit renaissance humanism wanted to sort of sweep out what they saw as the dust and the excessive erudition of mediaeval scholars.

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