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Humanism In The Middle Ages Essay

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Humanism is the belief that man has beauty, worth, and dignity. During the Middle Ages between 3rd to the 13th century, the life and culture are primarily focused on the church and religion. However, towards the beginning of the 14th century, the power of the church began to greatly decline. This decline was the main reason for the development of humanism. As people become less interested about God, the afterlife, and the saints. They become more interested about themselves, their natural world and here in now.
Many historians believe there are two main causes of this decline. The first one was the bubonic plague. It was the Black Death in Europe that killed almost half of the population. As the plague devastated and destroyed, the church was helpless to stop it. People then began to question spiritual …show more content…

Prior of the 14th century, much of Europe practice the feudal system and which wealth was based on land ownership. Generally speaking, under this system, people were seen as part of the collective hole to keep feudal system society and the manner system intact. Peasants or the poor workers are the tools used by wealthy to work on their land holding and keep their wealth intact. Adding to this imprisonment of a sort, the church led that to be concerned with yourselves and your rights, there’s nothing more than arrogant, rebellion and sin. One should only be concerned with obeying the rules and following them without a question. However, because of the plaque and the rise of trade the power of the church and feudalism strength, and the important of the individual grew. Men in human nature were no longer seen as totally sinful and need of punishment but instead, an independent beautiful creation of God. This is partly seen in the writings of Petrarch the father of humanism, and which he states “sameness in the mother of disgust, variety the cure!”, or in the other word, go on and express

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