# New Learning

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In the [history of ideas](/source/history_of_ideas) the '''New Learning''' in Europe is the [Renaissance humanism](/source/Renaissance_humanism), developed in the later fifteenth century. Newly retrieved classical texts sparked [philological](/source/philology) study of a refined and classical Latin style in prose and poetry. 

Contemporaries noticed this: [Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk](/source/Thomas_Howard%2C_3rd_Duke_of_Norfolk) lamented "It was merry in England afore the new learning came up", in relation to reading the Bible.<ref>W. A. Sessions, ''Henry Howard, the Poet Earl of Surrey: A Life'' (1999), p. 11.</ref>

An earlier 'new learning' had a similar cause, two centuries earlier. In that case it was new texts of [Aristotle](/source/Aristotle) that were discovered, with a major impact on [scholasticism](/source/scholasticism).<ref>''The Cambridge History of Later Medieval Philosophy: From the Rediscovery of Aristotle to the Disintegration of Scholasticism, 1100-1600'' (1988), p. 521.</ref> A later phase of the New Learning of the Renaissance concerned the beginnings of modern scientific thought. Here [Francis Bacon](/source/Francis_Bacon) is pointed to as an important reference point and catalyst.<ref>Joyce Appleby, ''Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective'' (1996), p. 3.</ref>

==See also==
*[Renaissance of the 12th century](/source/Renaissance_of_the_12th_century)
*[Greek scholars in the Renaissance](/source/Greek_scholars_in_the_Renaissance)
*[Renaissance Latin](/source/Renaissance_Latin)

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