Western Civilization I / Unit 13 WC1 1216 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Civic Humanism and Humanistic Education
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The idea
Civic humanism tied moral standing to one's city, and the witness credits Leonardo Bruni where the anchor credits Petrarch. Education shifted from scholastic law, medicine and theology to rhetoric, mathematics and history for business and politics, spreading across Europe by the late fifteenth century.
In practice
Civic schools for girls and boys.
Where people slip
The anchor's Petrarch is recorded; Bruni is the witness's name.
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