new learning

The clergymen, the nobility, even the women of the time became interested in the New Learning, as it was called.

They argued exactly as did the old mediaeval universities with regard to the new learning, that they had no place for science.

It was merry in England afore the new learning came up; yea, I would all things were as hath been in times past.

It drifted rather to the moderate reforms of the New Learning than to any radical reconstruction of the Church.

The universities in England particularly, being primarily clerical in their constitution, resisted the new learning very bitterly.