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HUMANISM AND KNOWLEDGE, image, image, image, image, image, image, image,…

- - - - Humans were at the centre of historical events
      - Humanism was an individualist movement
      - Humans were considered capable of making decisions using reason and intelligence
    - - The humanist scholars Petrarch and Giovanni Boccaccio studied antiquity
      - revised classical thinking in order to make it compatible with Christian values
    - - Humanists believed that a person’s prestige not only depended on their wealth and power, but also on their education.
      - Humanists were experts in various fields
      - Humanists encouraged the use of Latin and Greek
  - - - ERASMUS OF ROTTERDAM
        
        Erasmus of Rotterdam was born in the Netherlands
        
        riticised the vices of society, especially those at the heart of the Church
        
        called for reform based on an individual’s freedom of choice
      - SIR THOMAS MORE
        
        Sir Thomas More was an important English lawyer and author
        
        he described a society based on egalitarian principles
        
        defended the right of the individual conscience against the power of the state
      - CARDINAL CISNEROS
        
        set up the University of Alcalá de Henares as a centre of theology, a study revived by the humanists
        
        Due to his influence, Humanism had a clear Christian character in Castilla
- - - - 16th century
      - Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus
      - claimed that the Earth and all the other planets orbited the Sun
    - - by Ptolemy
      - in the 2nd century
      - claimed that the Earth was the immobile centre of the Universe, and all other celestial bodies orbited around it