Writers And Their Ages Flashcards
Homeric Age
Illiad and the Odyssey
Writers of Classical Greek Period
Aesop, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Euripides
Individual City States and early democracy
Classical Greek period
Patristic Period
Saint Jerome compiled the first Bible.
Tertullian, Saint Cyprian, Ambrose
Dark Ages
The old English or Anglo Saxon Period
Why are dark ages called the dark ages, mofo?
Because Rome fell and barbarian tribe move into Europe.
Franks, ostrogoths, Lombards, and Goths settle in the ruins of Europe.
Angles, Saxons, and Jutes migrate to Britain displacing native Celts into Scotland, Ireland, and Wales.
Work of the Dark Ages
Beowulf, The Wanderer, The Seafarer
Carolingian Renaissance
Mediaeval Grammar, encyclopaedia etc
What happens in 1066?
Normal French Army invade and conquers England under William 1
Norman Conquest
12th century Renaissance
French chivalric romances spread
Late or High Mediaeval Period’s write
Chaucer, Gawain the poet, Pearl the poet, Wakefield Master, William Langland
Italian and French writers- Boccaccio, Petrarch, Dante, Christine de Pisan
Century of Renaissance
15th 16th 17th century
Which phases does reformation and renaissance see?
early tudor Elizabethan jacobean caroline commonwealth or puritan
What happens in early tudor period?
War of roses end with Henry tudor claiming the throne.
Martin Luther’s split with Rome- Protestanism
Henry 8th Anglican schism- first protestant church
Henry Tudor is who
henry 7th
Sample poet of Early Tudor
Edmund Spenser