Great Books 5 Flashcards

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Renaissance year

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14th - 7th century

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16th century was a time of

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great intellectual activity in England

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3
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Considered as the most brilliant period in English literature

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Renaissance

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4
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Because of __, people in England were distracted and had wasted their energy that intellectual progress was almost impossible

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War of Roses

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5
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There are many Renaissance forces, but the most important of them (as far as literature is concerned) are

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Humanism, the invention of printing, Discovery of the new world and the Reformation

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this is the name given to the reawakened interest in the study of classical literature of Greece and Rome.

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Humanism

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7
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It began in Italy

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Humanism

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8
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Led the world in learning

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Italy

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