Renaissance Humanism

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

Seminar.

Brief summaries presented by the teacher to contextualize each module and prepare students to read the bibliography.

Critical reviews and reading reports of specialized bibliography to be orally presented by students with a view to fostering academic discussion.

 Reading and analysis of works of selected humanists in the light of the new neo-Latin studies.

Practical reading tasks, establishment and introduction of Humanism texts assigned by the teacher, taking into account the student’s options.

Learning Outcomes

Introduce the student in Neolatine Studies and its interdisciplinarity. To know the phenomenon of Humanism in Portugal in a fundamental period of the consolidation of Western culture. Identify the lines of continuity of Portuguese Humanism with European Humanism as well as its specificities. Identify their patrons and agents, as well as their literary and intellectual production, mostly that produced in Latin, either in an old book or in a manuscript. To familiarize the student with the richness and diversity of Neolithic historical sources (literary, philosophical, scientific, artistic, theological, juridical), sources less visited by studies of Portuguese Culture. After completing the curricular unit the student should be able to transcribe, fix the text, edit (and possibly translation, if the student have knowledges of Latin) and do the scientific study of texts from Renaissance Humanism.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. The phenomenon of Humanism in Portugal and in Europe. Nature of Portuguese Humanism

2. Portraits of humanists. Latin humanism from the West to the Indies. Humanism at the crossroads of cultures

3. The University of Coimbra and the Royal College of Arts, center of diffusion of Humanism

3. The Jesuit colleges and the teaching of Humanism: The Ratio Studiorum and the first global school network

5. The greater activity of Humanism: its literary and intellectual production.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 20.0%
Reading reports: 20.0%
Report of a seminar or field trip: 20.0%
Research work: 40.0%

Bibliography

Ford, P, Bloemendal J. and Fantazzi, C. (Eds), Brill's encyclopaedia of the Neo-Latin world.  [Vol. 1]: Macropaedia, 919 p. [vol. 2]: Micropaedia, Leiden - Boston : Brill, 2014. 

AA.VV. Latineuropa. Latim e cultura neolatina no processo de construção da identidade europeia. Coimbra, 2008;

Ratio Studiorum da Companhia de Jesus (1599): Regime Escolar e Plano de Estudos.Braga, Axioma, 2018;

Soares, Nair de N. Castro, Mostras de Sentido no Fluir do Tempo. Estudos de Humanismo e Renascimento. Coimbra: IUC, 2018;

M. Miranda, "A Ratio Studiorum e o desenvolvimento de uma cultura escolar na Europa moderna” Humanitas 63 (2011) 473-491;

Miranda, M., Miguel Venegas and the Earliest Jesuit Theater. Leiden:Brill, 2019.

O’Malley, John W., (Ed), The Jesuits: Cultures, Sciences and the Arts, 1540-1775, vol 1-2. Toronto, 2006

Ramalho, A.C, Para a História do Humanismo em Portugal. vols 1-5. 1988-2013

 IDEM, "Humanismo em Portugal" in Dicionario. de Hist Relig. em Port. Lisboa, vol1: 375-380.