Study On Inheriting Of Classical Culture Before Renaissance

This paper mainly explores inheriting of classical culture before Renaissance from three aspects: evolution of material forms,collecting books and reading.Material forms of books weren't just the materialization of culture heritage,but also effected people's reading habit and thinking modes.In the case of classical history,material forms of books had experienced the course of papyrus,parchments and printings.Collecting books,which belongs to the study on history of books,surely benefited inheriting of classical culture.Collecting books through the ancient times and the Middle Ages in secular libraries had flourished widely in the twelfth century.In the Middle Ages,abbey libraries were the primary base of collecting books.To some degrees,Carolingian Renaissance was a kind of cultural prosperity that was caused by abbey libraries' collection.Private collection,which existed earlier in history,had developed quickly in the Renaissance period.As far as reading,the readers could be divided into two parts before the Renaissance,the secular class and the priestly class.Reading modes transformed from declamatory public reading to subvocal private reading.People not only inherited classical culture in reading course,but also converted cultural resources advantages into cultural developing advantages,which could promote modern transition of society.Therefore,books were not only the carrier of inheriting,but it were all the intelligent source of culture development.Growing collecting books and reading,which were based on the evolution of materical forms,could help people bulid cultural identity and make Western European get rid of shackles of religions.It also produced new thought in the course of cultural massification and popularization.