Arts and learning

Question 1

Education

Answer 1

Period of inc edu, ‘song schools’, ‘reading schools’ provide basic education for young children, some grammar schools inc, e.g. 53 new built bet 1460-1509, University edu = Oxford, Cambridge (expanded new colleges in early 25 century but stopped under H, although Margaret Beaufort founded Christs, St Johns college. 1480s = beginning of new humanist style of teaching

Question 2

Drama

Answer 2

Plays = more popular with church-ale festivals and Troupes of players touring the country, guilds of certain towns and cities performed mystery plays (most famous drama’s) at the feasts on Corpus Christi day, setting out moral, religious messages (church, guild come tog to make more religious plays)

Question 3

Music

Answer 3

Local bagpipe, wind groups entertained at local level on Saint’s days, Great Choral pieces performed in Cathedrals, e.g. Eton Choir book 1505 = collection of 93 music compositions, change in this music from chants to polyphonic choral music, where diff parts of choir sing diff lines/parts. Composers benefitted from the patronage of important nobles, king, e.g. Thomas Browne, Robert Fayrfax = 2 imp composers linked to H

Question 4

Architecture

Answer 4

Much building and rebuilding of parish churches occurred at time in gothic perpendicular style, e.g. St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol, approved style by H for 1502 Lady Chapel built at Westminster Abbey

Question 5

Printing press

Answer 5

Willam Caxton brought first printing press to Eng, Caxton printed Chaucer and traditional medieval stories, e.g. chivalric romances, saints lives – printing meant more texts became available, language more standardised, literacy inc, although initial little direct connection bet printing and humanism, printing allowed new ideas to be more widely circulated, by end of H reign people reading more humanist work, e.g. Erasmus by 1509 works of humanist scholars become more fashionable

Question 6

Arts

Answer 6

H patron of arts, enc writers, poets, artists, poets, e.g. John Skelton, employed to write propaganda poetry about Tudor greatness, H children given renaissance edu, inc languages, classics, music, religion, dance, hunting