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The article deals with the development of Humanities in European education in the period of Renaissance, where the key role belonged to humanism and anthropocentrism, which gave a boost to the progress of humanitarian knowledge. The article’s purpose is to consider the social-cultural aspects and some changes in intellectual life that influenced the formation of Humanities (history, ancient languages, rhetoric, poetics, moral philosophy and so on). The author analyzes this process both from the standpointof university tradition (the department of free arts) and from the standpoint of humanists’activity, influenced the character of European education.