Historical Context Flashcards
Elizabethan World Picture, Neoplatonism and The Rennaisance
It is the Rebirth from the Dark Ages
The Renaissance
Main difference between European and English Renaissance
Vernacular writing in England started 400 years before / They focus on different arts / Started on different dtes
2 of the most important wars in the Early Tudor Age
The War of Roses and the Battle of Bosworth Field
Which counties took part in the War of Roses
Lancester and York
York won
What helped reaching the peace between Lacester and York?
Henry VII marrying Elizabeth of York
Crowned at 18 years old, educated with humanist ideas who became a patron of the arts, made England separate from Catholicism
Henry VII
Key aspects of the Tudor Reign
- Revival of classical learning and humanism
- Scientific method (Francis Bacon)
- Printing press
- “New world” discovery
- Economics goes up thanks to cloth trade and commercial centers
- Translations of the Bible provoke changes in faith
1st step of the Reformation
Catholicism in England seems strong
2nd step of the Reformation
Henry arguments against Lutheran heresy
3rd step of the Reformation
Henry is desperate for an annulment from Catherine of Aragon
4th step of the Reformation
His vision of Protestantism changes
5th step of the Reformation
The Crown seizes the Church’s property
6th step of the Reformation
Dissolution of the monasteries
7th step of the Reformation
Foundation of the Chruch of England
8th step of the Reformation
The King is seemes as the supreme spiritual and political figures (until Elizabethan Reign)
