Names Flashcards
Alfred the Great
Fought Vikings to standstill (treaty in 886)
Helped Education
Translated Venerable Bede to Anglo-Saxon
Wrote Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
John Wycliffe
Founder of Lollards
Translated Bible to English
Chaucer
Wrote Canterbury Tales
Boccaccio
Inspiration for Chaucer
Wrote collection of stories in verse
Dante
Wrote Divine Comedy (epic poetry)
Influenced Chaucer
Petrarch
Influenced Chaucer the most
Invented the Sonnet
Shakespeare
Greatest sonneteer
Invented English Sonnet
Influenced by Classical Greek and Roman Dramas
Marlowe
Wrote pastoral verse
Idealizes country life
Thomas Moore
Wrote Utopia
Last to write in Latin
Erasmus
Dutch
Thomas Wyatt
Transfer Petrarch to English
Wrote first Sonnet in English (not English Sonnet)
Phillip Sydney
Wrote first Sonnet Cycle
Astrophel + Stella
Edmund Spenser
Fairy Queen
Spenserian Stanzas
Walter Raleigh
Wrote History of the World
Thomas Nash
Unfortunate Traveler
Gutenberg
Printing Press
Caxton
Brought Printing Press to England
Columba
Set up first Christian Monestary in England (563 AD/BCE)
Emperor Claudius
Conquered the England
Henry II + Thomas Becket
Henry appointment Becket as Archbishop of Canterbury
Becket takes job seriously and doesn’t listen to Henry
Henry accidentally gets Becket killed by Knights
Bloody Mary
Edwards half-sister
Repressed Protestant
Restored Catholicism
Died from Period
Elizabeth I
Died unmarried and childless
Established Renaissance
Restored book of common prayer
Mary Queen of Scotts
Believed she was true heir to throne
Tried to assassinate Elizabeth multiple times
Lost a few inches to Elizabeth (beheaded)
James Stuart
Mary’s son
James VI and heir to Elizabeth
Wrote King James Bible
Jacobean Era
Prosecutes Protestants
Venerable Bede
1st English Historian
A History of the English Church & People
Wrote in Latin
