Renaissance
rebirth of ancient literature, culture
Seven Liberal Arts
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Scholasticism
commentaries
Peter Lombard, Sentences
Peter Abelard, Sic et non
Humanism
Italian communes
bureaucracy: chancellor, notary
dictatores, ars dictaminis
Francesco Petrarcha (1304-77)
Avignon
Cicero, Letters to Atticus (1c B.C.)
ad fontes! - back to the sources