ABSTRACT

The intellectual fatigue marking the fourteenth century and the early fifteenth century arose as had the previous episodes of cultural fatigue following the collapse of the Roman Empire and that of the Carolingian Renascence by virtue of the drying up of the generative impetus of different/innovative ideas. The economic burst of the late fifteenth century, in turn, led to the creation of a plentitude of new ideas about how this vigor might be maintained. The first great intellectual hurdle to be overcome was the matter of training a wider body of people in the ability to read Greek in an adequate fashion. Most of the Renaissance printers/publishers of serious books sought scholarly advice about the titles they should publish from scholars conversant with the then standards of intellectual concepts and ethical precepts as widely as the primitive fifteenth-century communication infrastructure allowed.