The Historical Context (before 1603)

Question 1

The Sonnet

Question 2

William Caxton

Question 3

Elizabethan Theatre

Question 4

Henry VIII

Question 5

1485

Answer 5

Battle of Bosworth Field

start of Tudor dynasty

Henry VII (7th)

(the guy who killed Richard III, aka Henry, Early of Richmond)

Question 6

Anglo-Norman England

Answer 6

period in English history after the Norman Conquest (by William the Conquerer) in 1066

Question 7

The Sonnet Sequence

Question 8

Sprezzatura

Answer 8

The appearance/facade of effortlessness

important quality for courtiers (according to Hoby)

Question 9

The Courtier

Question 10

Self-fashioning

Question 11

1603

Answer 11

enter House of Stuart

James VI o’ Scotland given British Throne

birth of the UK (England and Scotland now the same thing - sort of)

Question 12

Religious Strife

Question 13

1066

Answer 13

The Battle of Hastings

beginning of the Norman Conquest of England

Question 14

Anglo-Saxon England

Answer 14

era lasting from end of Roman occupation (5 c.) to 1066 Battle of Hastings

Anglo-Saxon = Old English

Question 15

The Printing Press

Question 16

Social Mobility

Question 17

English Reformation

Question 18

The Peasant’s Revolt

Question 19

King Arthur

Question 20

Three Estates

Question 21

Hundred Years War

Question 22

Ireland

Question 23

contemptus mundi

Answer 23

“contempt of the world”

common medieval theme

Question 24

The Court

Question 25

European Reformation

Question 26

Urbanization

Question 27

Copia

Question 28

Elizabeth I