Freethought

Chapter 12 Outline The Founding of Humanism Scholasticism had little to offer Europe?s small lay population, however demand was strong for practical and useful training, and Scholasticism offered no moral guidance. Minor branch, rhetoric, was concerned with art of good speaking and writing. Began to turn to Latin Classics, supported by the countless Classical monuments Rhetoricians began to argue that education should be reformed to give more attention to classics and lead people into moral lives. Created humanism. Came to mean Classical scholarship, wanted to master the classics. Sought to enrich than to undermine traditional religious attitudes. Petrarch Sought to emulate Virgil by writing a Latin epic poem, got him the title of ?poet laureate? and crowned in Rome in 1341.