Western Civilization I / Unit 13 WC1 1228 short lesson, about 20 seconds
How Humanist Education Crossed the Alps
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The idea
By the sixteenth century the classics were entrenched in elite education across Europe, joining or displacing scholasticism, and Renaissance styles surpassed Gothic. With gunpowder and politics, unit 14's subjects, the anchor calls this the definitive end of the Middle Ages.
In practice
Bureaucrats trained in rhetoric for royal governments.
Where people slip
The spread came through wars and offices. Unit 14 explains.
Your place on the trail
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