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Polymath
A person with a wide range of knowledge from multiple disciplines
Anthropology, medicine, maths and physics
Occult
Mystical, supernatural or magical powers and practices
Neoplatonism
it was a way of thinking and helped foster the acceptance of the reality of the spiritual world
Medicine sometimes included treatments based on astrology or the reading of horoscopes
Culture
How people practice or use to express ideas/beliefs that are important to them
Renaissance Magus
A man of deep intellectual and spiritual qualities, who was in possession of polymathic and occult knowledge
The Elite
Nobels or historic landowners
The learned elites: university scholars and churchmen
the middle class
Merchants, professional men and substantial (non-noble) landowners/ farmers.
The Common Class
90% of a country’s population
People who lived in hamlets, villages and small towns
