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According to research published in Oxford Bibliographies, it spread to the rest of Europe in the mid-15th century and by the 16th century, it was the dominant intellectual movement.
Holbein enjoyed rewarding personal and professional friendships with some of the boldest of boldfaced names of the 16th century: Desiderius Erasmus, Sir Thomas More, Thomas Cromwell, and, most ...
In 2010, she had a breakout hit with “How To Live,” an experimental biography of the 16th-century French essayist Michel de Montaigne that brought a cheeky, self-help-inflected wit to the subject.
Sarah Bakewell takes us on a 700-year tour of humanism. ... as when she describes how 16th-century physician Vesalius wrote an anatomy textbook in which he mislabeled the clitoris.
Australian sociologist John Carroll has re-worked and re-published his controversial book on Humanism, under a new title, The Wreck of Western Culture:Humanism Revisited (Scribe). The Guardian ...
A new book by the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Greg Grandin offers a fresh account of the region as an incubator of internationalism and commitment to the common good.
The Article 51 of the Constitution, which states that it is the duty of every citizen to develop scientific temper, spirit of inquiry and humanism, is not given the importance it deserves.