Humanism as Method: Roots of Conflict with the Scholastics
Recent scholarship on Northern Humanism has asked whether humanist-scholastic conflicts represent a clash of rival cultures or only isolated quarrels. Overfield favored the latter view. Now Rummel challenges this conclusion, arguing that discourse degenerated from polite discussion to cultural war....
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| Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
1998
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 1998, Volume: 29, Issue: 2, Pages: 427-438 |
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| Summary: | Recent scholarship on Northern Humanism has asked whether humanist-scholastic conflicts represent a clash of rival cultures or only isolated quarrels. Overfield favored the latter view. Now Rummel challenges this conclusion, arguing that discourse degenerated from polite discussion to cultural war. Two major issues emerged-defense of orthodoxy, and professional competence to discuss certain questions. Research must focus on humanism as an intellectual method which challenged tradition not only in the liberal arts but also in theology, law, and medicine. Scholars must ask whether humanists (e.g., Lefevre and Erasmus) as professional rhetoricians undermined the scholastic quest for absolute truth. Second, they must ask how humanists as experts in grammar (including textual criticism) lodged a claim to control the ancient texts on which all traditional learning was founded. Both as an attack on dialectic and as a movement for textual criticism, humanism constituted a fundamental challenge to medieval intellectual tradition. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/2544524 |