Literature of the Renaissance and Enlightenment

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Literature of the Renaissance and Enlightenment

• By
• Andrew C. Jackson, Esq.

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Why it matters772-3

• Power of monarchs
• Elizabeth I of England
• Growth of science and technology
• Galileo showed that earth was not center of
  universe
• Triumph of humanism
• Michelangelo (sculptorSistine Chapel)
• Age of discovery
• Christopher Columbus

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Historical Highlights774-5

• Early Renaissance
• Cities grew
• Trade
• Rising merchant class
• Heritage of ancient Greece and Rome
• Renaissance means rebirth or revival

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High Renaissance

• Artists
• Michelangelo
• da Vinci
• Raphael

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Late Renaissance and Reformation

• Reformation
• Martin Luther
• Protestants
• John Calvin
• Henry VIII
• divorce

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Age of Kings

• Divine Right
• Philip II of Spain
• Louis XIV of France
• Peter the Great of Russia
• England
• Bloodless revolution
• Constitutional monarchy

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Age of Enlightenment

• Human concerns
• Thomas Hobbes
• John Locke
• Mary Wollstonecraft
• Jean Jacques Rousseau

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People and Society776-77

• Aristocrats
• Clergy
• Soldiers
• Middle Class rises
• Peasants and Farmers
• Womens roles
• I know I have the body of a weak and feeble
  woman, but I have the heart of a king, and a King
  of England, too.Queen Elizabeth I

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Arts and Culturepp. 778-9

• Philosophy and Science
• Isaac Newton
• Literature
• Novel, lyric poetry, dramatists, neoclassical
• Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
• Da Vinci and Michalengelo

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Music

• Renaissance
• Sacred is joined by new forms
• Baroque
• Bach and Vivaldi
• Classical
• Haydn and Mozart

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The Printing Press

• Johan Gutenberg
• Germany

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Connect to Today

• Mass communication
• Human rights
• Science and Medicine
• Math and Engineering
• Language
• Renaissance Man, Utopian, Quixotic,
  Liberty!Equality! Fraternity!

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