In the history of ideas the '''New Learning''' in Europe is the Renaissance humanism, developed in the later fifteenth century. Newly retrieved classical texts sparked philological study of a refined and classical Latin style in prose and poetry.
Contemporaries noticed this: Thomas Howard, 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 that were discovered, with a major impact on 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 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 *Greek scholars in the Renaissance *Renaissance Latin
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