Revival of Learning

[ ri-vahy-vuhl uhv lur-ning ]

noun

1. the Renaissance in its relation to learning, especially in literature Re·viv·al of Lit·er·a·ture or Re·viv·al of Let·ters.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Revival of Learning¹

First recorded in 1775–85

Example Sentences

St. Leander and St. Isidore planted at Seville a school, which flourished in the seventh century, and the distant monasteries of Ireland continued somewhat later to be the receptacles of learning; but the rest of Europe sank into an almost absolute torpor, till the rationalism of Abelard, and the events that followed the crusades, began the revival of learning.

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The growth of towns, which multiplied secular interests and feelings, the revival of learning, the depression of the ecclesiastical classes that followed the crusades, and, at last, the dislocation of Christendom by the Reformation, gradually impaired the ecclesiastical doctrine, which ceased to be realised before it ceased to be believed.

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Among Christian scholars there was no independent school of Hebraists before the revival of learning.

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About 1450, at the time of the revival of learning, a Latin version was made and published by Laurentius Valla.

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One of Charlemagne's chief claims to distinction is that his reign, largely through his own influence, comprised the most important period of the so-called Carolingian renaissance, or revival of learning.

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