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The Mytho-Historical Roots of Renaissance Humanism

An intellectual genealogy of the transmission and influence of the philosophy of Ibn Rushd on early Humanism in Renaissance Europe. I argue that one can trace the development and spread of Averroism through the literary culture of the 12th to 14th centuries, culminating in the quasi-historical travelogue of Sir John Mandeville, who was able to circumvent the ecclesiastical condemnation of Averroist doctrine through the creative, narrativized portrayal of “mirror-societies” cast in a mythologized east. I suggest that it was through the idiom of mythic allegory that the literati of the late Middle Ages preserved Averroist doctrine and thereby vouchsafed the latter flourishing of Humanism in Renaissance Europe.