Conrad Celtis brings humanism to German lands
1390
The young Franconian Latin poet returned from Italian study tours determined to import Petrarchan humanism to Vienna and Krakow. Celtis would lecture, edit, and organize sodalities of scholars, becoming the central figure in early German humanist circles bridging the late Middle Ages and Erasmus's generation, proving that humanism need not remain an Italian monopoly.
In context
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.