5: Literary Periods of English Literature (Renaissance) Flashcards
Was the time of great intellectual activity in England
Sixteenth Century (Renaissance)
Considered the most brilliant period in English literature
Renaissance
Because of this, the people in England were distracted and had wasted their energy that intellectual progress was almost impossible
Wars of Roses
The most important of the Renaissance forces as far as literature is concerned
Humanism
Invention of Printing
Discovery of the New World
The Reformation
This is the name given to the reawakened interest in the study of classical literature of Greece and Rome
Humanism
Led the world in learning
Italy
The city where the Greek scholars were before they spread in Italy with their manuscripts
Constantinople
Who captured Constantinople?
Turks, 1453
This greatly accelerated the humanistic movement
Invention of Printing
Who invented the printing press?
Gutenberg
Where was literature written before the invention of printing?
Parchment or Vellum
the only books where pictures are printed on coarse paper from wooden blocks
Block Books
Who introduced printing in England and when?
William Caxton in 1476
Who discovered America in 1942?
Columbus
Rounded Africa and reached India by sea
Vasco da Gama
Sailed to the mainland of North America, and brought back wonderful stories
Cabots
Sailed around the world in 1520
Magellan
Discovered that the earth is huge but insignificant thing in the wide universe; just one of the myriad stars
Copernicus
It was this time that Martin Luther insisted upon the right of the individual to think for himself and spread the desire for a more thorough knowledge
The Reformation
Translated the Bible int the English of his own day
William Tyndale
His Bible translation was only in manuscript
Wyclif
Types of Literature during Renaissance
Dramatic and Non-Dramatic
It is a book that shows the renaissance influence in England
Miscellanies
The most famous poet of the Renaissance period
Edmund Spenser
