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Renaissance Period Flashcards

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What does Renaissance mean

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Rebirth

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What were 2 major developments in the Renaissance

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The Reformation and England’s break with the Roman Catholic Church
The invention of the printing press led to the birth of the novel

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Approximate dates and place of the Renaissance

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1350-1620

It began in Italy

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Poems in the Anthology that are Renaissance

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Who so list to haunt and Sonnet 116

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What is humanism

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The rejection of the power of the church

A secular movement for the dignity of man

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What is Courtly Love

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A medieval European literary conception of love that emphasised nobility and chivalry
The woman is placed on a pedestal and the man pines for her - she isn’t usually even aware/may be already married

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Petrarch 2 important facts

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The inventor of the sonnet (14 lines ABBAABBA)

Famous for his poems about Laura who he loves but cannot be with

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Pre 1900s Poetry (12 decks)

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