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work_pr4q5gm7vnhblgolqq2ujdiql4	John Howland Rowe	The Renaissance Foundations of Anthropology	1965	21	.pdf	application/pdf	11336	1075	66	mankind were the cultural and linguistic differences between Classical antiquity and what was then the present. cultures arose, there were Renaissance studies of Roman customs and institutions to serve as precedents. It is a fact that there was no continuous anthropological tradition of comparative studies in Classical antiquity and the Middle Ages. cultural differences than was common in Classical antiquity, but their work new information on differences among men to the stock which they had inherited from the geographical compilations of Classical antiquity. Valla also stimulated Renaissance interest in cultural differences by translating Herodotus into Latin. Biondo defended the Renaissance position by presenting evidence that the spoken language of the ancient Romans was a form of Latin. It is paradoxical in a sense that Renaissance admiration for Classical antiquity should have made men more ready to study linguistic and cultural differences in the world around them.	./cache/work_pr4q5gm7vnhblgolqq2ujdiql4.pdf	./txt/work_pr4q5gm7vnhblgolqq2ujdiql4.txt