... logic and metaphysics w/ the study of language, literature, rhetoric, history and ethics. Faith in the nobility of human beings natural capacities is sometimes referred to as humanism or secular humanism. Renaissance humanism was the first and foremost an educational program securely rooted in catholic Christian orthodoxy, and that it gave rise only incidently to a more general outlook that stressed the potential ... ...

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... monarchs attempted to assert more and more of their authority against the power of their feudal nobility. Instead of relying on feudal charges for the bulk of their military power, Renaissance princes employed mercenaries in increasing numbers. Royal bureaucracies and legal systems also expanded. Not just content with expanding their royal rights within their states, European monarchs struggled with each other ... ...

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