16 Okt 1434 Jahr - renaissance

Beschreibung:

irreverance of current authority, latin or arab

a fascination with the ancient

a fascination with the distant (america)

non institutional, extra-scholastic and at times anti-scholastic intellectual life (due to favroable economic conditions, patronage, printing press)

emphasis on mathematics (rather than logics)

neo platonism rather than aristotle

magic, alchemy, astrology (occult powers? an unseen world? metaphysics?)

man in the center, a sympathetic universe