7. Rise of universities. How did they differ from modern universities?
[[1]] Advancement of Learning, iv, 5.
[[2]] See [Chapter XXIX].
CHAPTER XXIII
HUMANISM AND THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING
Perhaps the most important branch of the revival of learning is that which is called humanism, or the revival of the study of the masterpieces of Greek and Latin literature. The promoters of this movement are called humanists, because they held that the study of the classics, or litterae humaniores, is the best humanizing agent. It has already been shown how scholasticism developed as one of the important phases of the renaissance, and how, close upon its track, the universities rose as powerful aids to the revival of learning, and that the cathedral and monastic schools were the traditional forerunners of the great universities.