Timeline of Psychology - Fifteenth Century

Fifteenth Century

• ca. 1400 - Renaissance Humanism caused a reawakening of ancient knowledge of science and medicine.
• 1433-1499 Marsilio Ficino was a renowned figure of the Italian Renaissance, a Neoplatonist humanist, a translator of Greek philosophical writing, and the most influential exponent of Platonism in Italy in the fifteenth century.
• ca. 1450 - The pendulum in Europe swings, bringing Witch Mania, causing thousands of women to be executed for witchcraft until the late 17th century.