Abstract:Introduction. A social conception of the humanist movement 1. Learned connections and the humanist movement 2. Literary and social humanists 3. The social origins of the Florentine humanists 4. The hu...Introduction. A social conception of the humanist movement 1. Learned connections and the humanist movement 2. Literary and social humanists 3. The social origins of the Florentine humanists 4. The humanist demands of ritual 5. Civic failure of the literary humanists or literary failure of the civic humanists? 6. The rise of the social humanists, 1400-55 7. Humanism as a means to social status, 1456-85.Read More