Humanist Beliefs
What is logical thinking?
Who was Petrarch?
The Latin word 'humanitas' was the origin word for 'humanist.' 'Humanitas' meant kindness.
What is 'humanitas'?
Humanism was a way of thinking. It was defined as a movement to change people.
What is a way of thinking?
Humanists valued knowledge and education in schools.
What did humanists value in schools?
What is religion?
Lorenzo Valla was another main humanist who dedicated his humanist studies to helping churches.
Who was Lorenzo Valla?
What did humanism refer to?
Humanism is sometimes defined as an 'intellectual movement'.
What is an intellectual movement?
Humanists focused on education and schools to gain knowledge.
What did humanists focus on in schools?
Humanists believed they could shape their own lives via talents and efforts.
What are talents and efforts?
Petrarch was born in Arezzo, Tuscan.
Where was Petrarch born?
Humanism started in Italy, then spread across Western Europe from the 14th to the 16th century.
Where did humanism first start?
Humanism is the study of humanitas.
Students were being taught Greek and Latin.
What were students being taught?