Starting in the 14th century, the Renaissance period was a catalyst for a change in education. During the Middle Ages, the emphasis in education of the medieval scholastics was on theology and spiritual pursuits, and man was viewed as ... , the term humanities came to refer to the seven liberal arts of antiquity which included arithmetic, grammar, logic, astronomy, geometry, music and rhetoric. Early Renaissance Italian humanists such as Battista Guarino and Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini asserted that a man must study the humanities to acquire virtue and to attain enlightenment. ... fear of G...

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