litterae

The term litterae humaniores survives in Oxford as one of the honors schools.

LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES REN 1968

In the Middle Ages, with the establishment of the seven liberal arts and the trivium, the term litterae was used rarely.

LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES REN 1968

With the Renaissance a consciousness of a new secular literature opposed to scripture and theological writing or to the writing of schoolmen and pedants emerges and with it the terms litterae humanae, lettres humains, and bonnes lettres.

LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES REN 1968

“Humanae litterae, verbum divinum, docta ignorantia negli ultimi scritti di Enrico Cornelio Agrippa.”

Loss of Faith 2009

Senator Obama's key demographic, last time I checked, is not known for a love of litterae humaniores.

Archive 2008-06-01 Patrick J. Smith 2008

Senator Obama's key demographic, last time I checked, is not known for a love of litterae humaniores.

Mirabile dictu Patrick J. Smith 2008

Starting as conventual habits, especially of the Benedictines, at Oxford and Cambridge in the late Middle Ages, they have been adapted and varied a thousand-fold in the service of the respublica litterae.

Ceremonial and Insignia—Some Considerations 1975

Grammata and litterae mean, at the utmost, literary education, learning.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas E. N. TIGERSTEDT 1968

Literature was a new or alternate term for what in antiquity was usually called litterae.

LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES REN 1968

Graecae litterae, historia litteris nostris, and studium litterarum.

LITERATURE AND ITS COGNATES REN 1968