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Names Flashcards

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Alfred the Great

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Fought Vikings to standstill (treaty in 886)

Helped Education

Translated Venerable Bede to Anglo-Saxon

Wrote Anglo-Saxon Chronicles

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John Wycliffe

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Founder of Lollards

Translated Bible to English

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3
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Chaucer

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Wrote Canterbury Tales

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Boccaccio

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Inspiration for Chaucer

Wrote collection of stories in verse

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Dante

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Wrote Divine Comedy (epic poetry)

Influenced Chaucer

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Petrarch

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Influenced Chaucer the most

Invented the Sonnet

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7
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Shakespeare

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Greatest sonneteer

Invented English Sonnet

Influenced by Classical Greek and Roman Dramas

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Marlowe

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Wrote pastoral verse

Idealizes country life

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9
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Thomas Moore

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Wrote Utopia

Last to write in Latin

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10
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Erasmus

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Dutch

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Thomas Wyatt

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Transfer Petrarch to English

Wrote first Sonnet in English (not English Sonnet)

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12
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Phillip Sydney

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Wrote first Sonnet Cycle

Astrophel + Stella

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13
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Edmund Spenser

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Fairy Queen

Spenserian Stanzas

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14
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Walter Raleigh

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Wrote History of the World

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15
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Thomas Nash

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Unfortunate Traveler

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16
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Gutenberg

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Printing Press

17
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Caxton

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Brought Printing Press to England

18
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Columba

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Set up first Christian Monestary in England (563 AD/BCE)

19
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Emperor Claudius

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Conquered the England

20
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Henry II + Thomas Becket

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Henry appointment Becket as Archbishop of Canterbury

Becket takes job seriously and doesn’t listen to Henry

Henry accidentally gets Becket killed by Knights

21
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Bloody Mary

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Edwards half-sister

Repressed Protestant

Restored Catholicism

Died from Period

22
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Elizabeth I

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Died unmarried and childless

Established Renaissance

Restored book of common prayer

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Mary Queen of Scotts

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Believed she was true heir to throne

Tried to assassinate Elizabeth multiple times

Lost a few inches to Elizabeth (beheaded)

24
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James Stuart

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Mary’s son

James VI and heir to Elizabeth

Wrote King James Bible

Jacobean Era

Prosecutes Protestants

25
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Venerable Bede

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1st English Historian

A History of the English Church & People

Wrote in Latin

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