What is humanism and how is the concept connected to the Renaissance?

Renaissance humanism was a revival in the study of classical antiquity, at first in Italy and then spreading across Western Europe in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. During the Renaissance period most humanists were religious, so their concern was to "purify and renew Christianity," not to do away with it.

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