The English Renaissance 1485 - 1625

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The English Renaissance1485 - 1625

• Celebrating Humanity
• Pgs. 222 - 232

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Tell the story of The Renaissance

• Shepard, Gerathy, Donovan

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Tell the story of the Protestant Reformation

• Barbella, Peck, Durkin

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Tell the story of the Henrys

• Mott, Mortenson, Fernandez

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The Queens (Bloody,Liz,Scots)

• Mary I
• restored roman catholic practices to the church
  of England
• Restored authority of the pope in England
• She earned the nickname Bloody Mary by
  executing 300 Protestants
• Elizabeth I Mary Stuart
• Half sister of Mary I
• Put an end to the religious turmoil between
  Catholics and protestants
• Well educated
• Her cousin, Mary Stuart, was the queen of
  Scotland by birth and next in line for the thrown
• Elizabeth's mothers marriage to Henry VIII was
  not recognized by the Catholics
• Catholics believed Mary Stuart was the rightful
  queen
• Elizabeth had Mary imprisoned for 18 years
  because of her threat to the thrown
• While in prison Mary organized numerous Catholic
  plots against Elizabeth
• After parliament order Elizabeth had Mary
  executed
• Making Mary a catholic Martyr

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The Jacobean Era

• The Jacobean Era and Prose
• The scholars still preferred to write in Latin,
  therefore the English prose still had Latin
  influence.
• The prose of Sidney, Nashe, and Raleigh, were
  several Elizabethan poets that contributed major
  works of Jacobean prose.
• Sir Philip Sidney's defense of poesie is one of
  the earliest works of English literary criticism.
  
• Sir Francis Bacon was
• Leading prose writer of the English renaissance
• His greatest work Novum Organum made major
  contributions to natural science and philosophy
• The King James Bible
• Most monumental prose achievement of the
  renaissance. This was the english translation of
  the bible.
• Fifty four scholars labored for seven years
• It widely quoted influential works in the English
  Language.

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Renaissance Lit. (3 types)

• Elizabethan Poetry
• - Poets perfected the sonnet and experimented
• - Sydney, Spencer, and Shakespeare were the top
  poets
• - Popular style was the sonnet cycle, which was
  a series of sonnets that formed a story
• - Christopher Marlowe helped popularize pastoral
  verse
• - Idealizes the rustic simplicity of rural life
• Elizabethan Drama
• - turned away from religious subjects and began
  to write complex and sophisticated stories
• - reintroduced dramas and tragedies
• - popular writer were Christopher Marlowe and
  William Shakespeare
• Elizabethan and Jacobean Prose
• - liked writing in Latin
• - used long words and ornate sentences
• - kings James bible- monumental prose

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Protestant Reformation

• As nationalism grew many Europeans began to
  question the Roman Catholic Church
• Some felt the church officials were corrupt and
  questioned their teachings
• A scholar, Desiderius Erasmus, raised many
  questions about interpretations involving
  morality and religion
• Martin Luther, a German monk, staged a protest
  that divided the Roman Catholic Church and the
  new Christian denomination known as Lutheranism
• This Process was called the Protestant
  Reformation

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The Renaissance

• Started in Italian city-states in 1350 and spread
  towards England in 1485
• Supported rebirth of civilization through
  learning and arts
• Led to advances in English sea exploration
• -Advances in technology (compass/astronomy)
• Columbus arrived in Western Hemisphere in 1492
• Age of Exploration began in 1497- John Cabot
  reached Newfoundland

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Story of the Henrys

• Henry VII
• -rebuilt nations treasury
• -Reestablished law and order
• -Restored prestige in the monarchy
• Henry VIII
• -son of King VII
• -Tried for annulment, remarried anyway
• -Broke relationship between church and state
• -Seized churchs property

King Edward VI -son of Henry VII -Became king at
9, and died at 15 -Replaced Latin to English in
church -Changed England to a Protestant
nation Queen Elizabeth -Edwards half
sister -Reestablish monarch supremacy -Instituted
religious compromise between Catholic and
Protestant
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Changing English Language (232)

• Keena, Dessel, Viktoriya
• Shakespeare used 20,000 words in his works, and
  over 1,700 of them were created by himself
• Reading his work is like witnessing the birth of
  a language(pg 232)