Thomas More Influence On Humanism

There exist few ideological movements that leave such an overwhelming impact on the modern world, like humanism. Influential not only in the struggle between philosophies in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, it to this day affects the modern condition – especially that of a historian, for the modern notion of creating historical works by utilizing sources for one’s self holds roots in the humanist movement along with the discipline insistence on returning to the primary sources of each, rather than opinion of other scholars, as seen in the scholastic movement it competes with. The most well-known English humanist, Thomas More laid out new ideas on historical preservation, but that is only a small portion of his effect on his contemporaries and modernity, with the most poignant effects lying on his allotting the English a chance to see a society in which all men are equal under one unifying body, namely a King, after God; women receiving the same standardized education as men, which he

While at first glance, the humanist movement does give credit and permission to Protestants to revolt, further study however, shows an equal of humanist literature paving a different route that became the next major reform as well. The Reformation in itself, and the examination of the Church by both More and other Christian humanists would eventually also lead to a Catholic Counter-Reformation, despite their deaths, in which the Church finally did fix some of its internal issues, but also attacked the new sects of Christianity with historians giving humanism credit and critique for both major events of the early modern