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What is meant by the ‘rediscovery of ancient civilization’? Show how the ‘New Learning’ was a major element in the beginning of Modem Europe.
- UPSC 1986
- Enlightenment and Modern Ideas
The passage of Europe from its medieval, Church-centred world-view to a secular, human-centred modern outlook is inseparable from a single intellectual event: the recovery, across the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, of the literary, philosophical and artistic legacy of Greece and Rome.
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- The 'Rediscovery of Ancient Civilization': What Was Recovered and How
- The New Learning: From Scholastic Theology to Humanist Method
- The New Learning as the Beginning of Modern Europe
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