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The 16th century Flashcards

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1
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What important events happened in 16th century France

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Renaissance, Humanism, Reformation, scientific advances ( Copernicus, Ambroise Paré), printing development, rediscovery of Antiquity

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Who was the king and patron fostering the new spirit of arts and letters

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Francois I

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Who did King Francois I bring from Italy to decorate the castle of Fontainebleau

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Leonardo da vinci, Cellini, Titian, Primatice

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What is humanism

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European intellectual movement back to ancient culture

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Who were the great scholars of humanism who translated, disseminated and analysed ancient texts

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Erasmus, Guillaume Budé, Thomas More, Étienne Dolet

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What do the humanists do

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Make a break with medieval tradition and return to original writing stripped of its glosses

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Who translated the Bible into German and who into French

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Luther, Lefèvre d’Étaples

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For whom was the only source of faith in the Bible and the authority of church was useless

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Calvin

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Who founded protestantism condemned by the Catholic church and french rulers

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Calvin

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Wars of religion bloodied the kingdom until when?

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Until edict of Nantes (1598) by King Henry 4 which ensured freedom of worship for Protestants

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Who was protected by Francois I

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Clément Marot

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Who was Clément Marot and what did he do

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Translator of Ovid and petrarch , passed from medieval forms( ballads, roundel) to those of the Renaissance ( epistle, elegy, sonnet )

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Who was the Lyon school inspired by

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Petrarch

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What does Maurice Scève do and what was his work

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Celebrates platonic love in a long series of dizains with hermetic langauge like Délie, object of highest virtue

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What did Pernette du Guillet do

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Composed Rymes, an elegiac interior monologue

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In which work does the woman suffer but also desire

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Sonnets of Louis Labé

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What is La Pléiade

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Poetic breeding ground that sprawled at college de Coqueret, Paris

18
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Who teached in college de Coqueret, paris

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Hellenist Jean Dorat

19
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What do students learn in college de Coqueret, paris

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Learn italian, cultivate love of ancient lit, and place poetry above all genres

20
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What is the idea of ‘in defence and illustration of the French language ‘ by Joachim du bellay

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Du Bellay inivites scholars to write In French as it can express all. Lexicon must be enriched by putting back old words, using langauge of trade, borrowing from provincial dialects and creating words derived from Greek and Latin, style and form( versification, genres ) must be worked on, ancient writers translated and imitated

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How diverse is the poetic work of du bellay. Give examples

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Melancholic and lyrical, sometimes satirical. regrets, Antiquities of Rome

22
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Who was the prince of poets

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Ronsard

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What does ronsard offer to poetry

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Beautiful love sonnets where epicureanism is tinged with nostalgia of passing time

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The Baroque expresses the anguish of an unstable world. NAME some baroque poets who drew on langauge to express that which is hidden

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Phillipe Desportes, Guillaume du Bartas, Agrippa d’Aubigné

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Which stories give the scale of protest genius of Rabelais

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Pantagruel, Gargantua

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The borrowings from popular writing, the colorful vigour, the comic exaggeration do not hide the project of the author. What is the project

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To fight obscurantism and promote humanism

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What genre imposed itself in Rabelais shadow

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Short story

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What is the name of the nested stories that Marguerite de Navarre, sister of Francois I wrote and what were they inspired by

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Heptaméron, insp by Boccaccios Decameron

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Who wrote The Institution of the Christian religion

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Calvin

30
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What did Montaigne say to question the human condition with great freedom of mind

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I am myself the subject of my book

31
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What attitudes to life does Montaigne suggest? What he said about them?

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Stoic (“ knowing to die frees us from all subjection and constraint”) skeptical(“ what do I know?”) epicurean(“ for me, therefore, I love life )

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