The Humanist Generation is the name given by sociologists to describe the generation of people, born 1461–1482. It is an identified cohort within the Strauss–Howe generational theory . Howe, Neil; Strauss, William, The Fourth Turning. (Broadway Books, 1997).  This generation came of age at the height of the Middle Ages, just prior to the Reformation and Renaissance. For the educated classes life was fairly static, with Renaissance Humanist teaching and a clear career path through the church or State bureaucracy becoming increasingly available for the educated middle classes. Humanist influences took hold across Europe, and in many ways prepared the intellectual landscape for the coming reformation. Their youth coincided with the development of the European Printing press allowing a greater dissemination of knowledge. The Printing Press   .
The Humanist Generation is the name given by sociologists to describe the generation of people, born 1461–1482. It is an identified cohort within the Strauss–Howe generational theory , Howe, Neil; Strauss, William, The Fourth Turning. (Broadway Books, 1997). which classified it under the Artist (Adaptive) type. This generation came of age at the height of the Middle Ages, just prior to the Reformation and Renaissance. For the educated classes life was fairly static, with Renaissance Humanist teaching and a clear career path through the church or State bureaucracy becoming increasingly available for the educated middle classes. Humanist influences took hold across Europe, and in many ways prepared the intellectual landscape for the coming reformation. Their youth coincided with the development of the European Printing press allowing a greater dissemination of knowledge. The Printing Press . According to Strauss and Howe, those who constituted this generation had sheltered childhood during bloody civil war and were educated abroad, becoming Greek tutors, international scholars, poets, prelates, and literate merchants and yeoman. The education produced by the humanist generation has been described as focused on qualitative and subjective rather than quantitative and objective .
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According to Strauss and Howe, those who constituted this generation had sheltered childhood during bloody civil war and were educated abroad, becoming Greek tutors, international scholars, poets, prelates, and literate merchants and yeoman. The education produced by the humanist generation has been described as focused on qualitative and subjective rather than quantitative and objective