Tag: reformation
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Rethinking the Middle Ages: Faith, Learning and Intellectual Change
The Middle Ages were not an intellectual void between Rome and the Renaissance. This essay explores how universities, scholasticism, religious controversy, humanism, printing and cross-cultural exchange transformed inherited traditions and helped shape early modern Europe.
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Resistance and Reformation.
Acknowledgement of Supervision: Dr Karie Schultz The medieval period with its rediscovery of the ancients facilitated the rise of political science, synthesised with religious thought. This move can be seen as echoing through to the Reformation, the epoch of this week’s study. During the Reformation, we may observe trends across the realm of ideas and…