Late Middle Ages

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If I was a random person living in Europe at the end of the Late Middle Ages, my opinion of the Catholic Church would probably be bad. I say this because the Catholic Church was in the middle of a crisis causing their reputation to decline majorly. Some of the reasons that caused their reputation to decline so badly would include Pope Celestine V being elected and then months later he resigns, which has never really happened before and leads to the question can a pope resign? Another event that happen was the election of Pope Boniface VIII which caused a conflict with the king of France because Pope Boniface refused to let King Philip IV tax the Clergy causing conflict between theories of papal Monarchy and secular

It was the study of humanities and it focus on history, moral philosophy, classical Latin, poetry, rhetoric, and textual criticism. It was also the use of humanities to improve human beings.

Petrarch was a poet and scholar whose humanist philosophy set the stage for the Renaissance. He got his motivation from dislike of scholasticism, which came before Humanism, and had an admiration of the classical world and put his efforts to rediscover and revive classical culture figuratively and literally. Petrarch discovered vast stores of knowledge and philosophy in the lost texts that he discovered, and he did this while his philosophy of humanism helped incite the intellectual advancement and achievements of the Renaissance.

Scholasticism and humanism were both used as educational methods that existed simultaneously, but each had a different focus. Humanism did not focus all their attention on summarizing and comparing the views of recognized authorities on a text or question, but went directly to the sources themselves. Scholasticism focus on the use of the dialectic method and believed that faith and logic was compatible. Scholasticism brought in the elements of faith and reason while humanism emphasized