English unit 3 questions Flashcards
What were humanist still interested in during the renaissance?
Theology and religious questions.
Who were two famous humanist?
Sir Thomas More and Erasmus
What was the main focus of humanist interest?
Earthly matters
During the renaissance educated people began to embrace what?
an intellectual movement known as humanism
Why are historical periods in exact and generally unknown to the people who live during them?
They are named later by historians to describe general trends rather than precise beginnings and endings
The intellectual movement known as humanism-
Joined the wisdom of the classics with that of the Bible, emphasizing ideals of wisdom and virtue
Why did the invention of the printing with movable type have a great impact?
The wide availability of reading material allowed ideas to spread quickly
How did the monk Martin Luther contribute to the beginning of the Reformation
By developing a personal form of Christianity not based on papal decrees
In the mid-1500s, many people in England were dissatisfied with the Church of England because they-
feld that the church was in sufficiently reformed, merely a copy of Catholicism
King Henry VIII of England could be considered a “Renaissance man” because he-
Was literary, musical, athletic, and scholarly
England’s independence from the Catholic countries of the Mediterranean was ensured by-
The English navy’s defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588
What caused an eleven-year gap in the line of English monarchs between 1649 an 1660?
England was ruled by Parliament and by the Puritan dictator Oliver Cromwell
What did humanist look to for wisdom and knowledge?
The Bible, Latin and Greek classics
What did humanist combine in order to teach people how to live and rule?
They combined classical ideals with traditional Christian thought in order to teach people how to live and rule
What did the invention of the printing press help?
And what happened?
- It helped spread this new emphasis on the humanities
- as more books became available to more people than ever before
What did Henry VIII do in 1534?
he broke away from the church because the pope refused to grant him an annulment with his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, and declared himself head of the Church of England.
What marked the beginning of the Protestant Reformation in England?
Henry breaking away from the Roman Catholic Church
What did the English wish during the reformation?
To put an end to the widespread corruption among the clergy and to the politic power that Rome and its ally Spain wielded over English affairs
What was the Spanish Armada?
The most decisive event in England’s emergence as a naval power and independent political force in Northern Europe was the defeat of the great armada of Spanish ships by the Royal Navy in 1588.
What is an armada?
Is a fleet of warships
What questions did humanists ask when they went to the old Latin and Greek classics?
“What is a human being?”
“What is a good life?”
“How do I lead a good life?”
What did most scholars forget during the long period of the Middle Ages? What did they use?
- The forgot the Greek language
- they used a form of Latin that was very different from the Latin of Ancient Rome
What did people discover during the Renaissance?
They discovered the marvels of old Greek and Latin classics-books that had been tucked away on the cobweb-covered shelves of monasteries for hundreds of years
What could people during the renaissance now do?
Learn to read Greek, and reform the Latin they read, wrote, and spoke
