Chapter III. The Renaissance.

§ 1. The Transition from the Mediæval to the Modern World. § 2. The Revival of Literature and Art. § 3. Its earlier relation to Christianity. § 4. The Brethren of the Common Lot. § 5. German Universities, Schools, and Scholarship. § 6. The earlier German Humanists. § 7. The Humanist Circles in the Cities. § 8. Humanism in the Universities. § 9. Reuchlin. § 10. The “Epistolæ Obscurorum Virorum.” § 11. Ulrich von Hutten.