Renaiisance Notes

Question 0

Where did the Renaissance begin?

Answer 0

Italy

Question 1

English Renaissance

Answer 1

Rebirth

1485-1625

Question 2

When did it reach England?

Answer 2

200 years later

Question 3

What flourished?

Answer 3

Literary, artistic, and intellectual development

Question 4

What curriculum did universities add?

Answer 4

Humanities: history, geography, poetry, and modern language

Question 5

What was invented by Gutenburg?

Answer 5

Printing press

Question 6

What did more writers write in?

Answer 6

Vernacular

Question 7

Age of exploration

Answer 7

Thirst for knowledge initiates this

Question 8

What did Italy do?

Answer 8

Monopolized trade routes to Asia

Question 9

What did Portugal and Spain do?

Answer 9

Seek an all sea-route, helped by compass and astronomy

Question 10

What does England?

Answer 10

John Cabot discovers found land in 1497

Question 11

Protestant reformation

Answer 11

Leads to formation of Anglican Church in England

Question 12

How was the church corrupt?

Answer 12

Indulgences, mob-style hits in Church, protest, and defiance of Catholic Church

Question 13

What do Erasmus and Thomas More focus on?

Answer 13

Mortality and religion

Question 14

What did Martin Luther do in 1517?

Answer 14

Nailed 95 theses to the door of church in Germany

Question 15

What did he intend to do?

Answer 15

To begin a debate and reform within Catholic Church

Question 16

What happened that was not intended with the 95 Theses?

Answer 16

Ends up splitting the church

Question 17

What do the Protestants split into?

Answer 17

Lutherans and Calvinists

Question 18

What years was the Tudor dynasty?

Answer 18

1485-1603

Question 19

It was a period of ____ and ______ expansion for England

Answer 19

Stability and economic

Question 20

What does a Henry VII do?

Answer 20

Ends war of the roses, restores England’s shattered economy and domestic peace

Question 21

What did Henry VIII do?

Answer 21

He begins catholic; writes a book attacking Luther and pope dubs him “Defender of the faith”

Question 22

What marriage was when Henry VIII wanted an annulment?

Answer 22

Catherine of Aragon so that he can marry Anne Boleyn

Question 23

What does the pope do?

Answer 23

He refuses but Henry remarries anyway

Question 24

Act of supremacy

Answer 24

Henry assumes ful control of church in England, severs all ties with Rome, Seizes Catholic Church's english properties Sells of monastic lands, Ruthlessly suppresses all opponents including monks, Friars,etc.

Question 25

What did Henry VIII do to Thomas More?

Answer 25

Beheaded him when More refused to renounce Catholicism

Question 26

Edward VI

Answer 26

King from 9-15( 1547-53)

Question 27

What is the book of common paper?

Answer 27

English replaces Latin in Anglican Church

Question 28

Mary I

Answer 28

Edwards half sister Restores Catholicism and authority of pope Marries Philip III of Spain Violently represses Protestants

Question 29

What is Mary I nickname?

Answer 29

Bloody Mary

Question 30

Elizabeth I

Answer 30

Mary's half sister | Intelligent, strong-willed and unmarried and childless

Question 31

What did Elizabeth I recieve?

Answer 31

Renaissance education- became great patron of the arts

Question 32

What did they call the period of the Renaissance?

Answer 32

The Elizabethan Period because she had such a great influence

Question 33

What does she return and renew and institute?

Answer 33

Return- Book of Common Paper Renew- Act of Supremacy Institutes- religious tolerance

Question 34

What did she do to the French and Spanish?

Answer 34

Manipulated them and outwitted them for decades | [Promised marriages(falsely)]

Question 35

Who did many Catholics consider as true queen of England

Answer 35

Mary Stewart because they didn't recognize Henry VIII marriage to Anne Boleyn

Question 36

What did Elizabeth I do to Mary S.?

Answer 36

House arrest for 19 years

Question 37

What did Mary do?

Answer 37

Plotted to kill Elizabeth I but Elizabeth would always get the killers but she always spared Mary

Question 38

What happened that Mary S. got beheaded?

Answer 38

She got convicted for plotting to murder Elizabeth

Question 39

What happened when she got beheaded?

Answer 39

Spain declares war of England | And were mad about privateers plundering ships

Question 40

What happens in 1588?

Answer 40

Spanish Armada gets destroyed and emergence of England as a naval power

Question 41

James VI

Answer 41

Jacobean era (also path of the arts) * King James Bible - English translation - 54 scholars, 3 years

Question 42

Thomas More

Answer 42

Utopia | * written in Latin

Question 43

What is Utopia about?

Answer 43

Depiction of ideal society free of superstition and prejudice

Question 44

Thomas Wyatt

Answer 44

Translated Petrarch | Writes first sonnets in English

Question 45

Henry Howard

Answer 45

First one to use blank verse

Question 46

Blank verse?

Answer 46

Unrhymed iambic pentameter used in plays

Question 47

What did Shakespeare write during James's reign?

Answer 47

Dark tragedies

Question 48

What do Enlgish pets reject

Answer 48

Narrative poetry of Chaucer

Question 49

What do English Poets turn to?

Answer 49

Lyric poetry

Question 50

Lyric poetry?

Answer 50

Expresses speakers feelings in vivid, musical language

Question 51

Sonnet?

Answer 51

14!lines Iambic pentameter Stanzas of 8 and 6 lines Repeating rhyme sequences

Question 52

Sonnet cycles?

Answer 52

Series of sonnets that are put together to tell a story

Question 53

Who wrote the first great sonnet cycle?

Answer 53

Philip Sydney.

Question 54

Edmund Spenser

Answer 54

Sonnets | The Faerie Queen

Question 55

The Faerie Queene

Answer 55

Epic poem dedicated to Elizbeth

Question 56

What are nine line units called?

Answer 56

Spenserian stanzas

Question 57

Christopher Marlowe

Answer 57

Pastoral verse | Idealizes simplicity of rural life

Question 58

William Shakespeare

Answer 58

Greatest sonneteer | Goes from Petrarch to Shakespearean

Question 59

What was drama influenced by?

Answer 59

Greek and roman drama

Question 60

Tragedy?

Answer 60

Drama in which central characters meet disaster or misfortune Hero- good character that errs because of hubris(pride)

Question 61

Comedy?

Answer 61

Humorous situation with happy resolution

Question 62

Shakespeare and Marlowe

Answer 62

Tragedies, comedies, histories, tragicomedies Brilliant language Unparalleled insight into human nature Sympathy for all social classes

Question 63

Sir Walter Raleigh

Answer 63

History of the World

Question 64

Thomas Nashe

Answer 64

The Unfortunate Traveller

Question 65

Francis Bacon

Answer 65

Novum Organum - Latin scientist