VIP's Flashcards
(17 cards)
King Alfred the Great (871 to 899)
united Saxon kingdoms
reform of culture and education
translations from Latin
began Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
King Arthur
- (legend of Celtic origin)
- courtly literature, chivalric romance
- in France: Chrétien de Troyes
- in England: Marie de France
The Tudors
- first Tudor monarch: Henry VII, 1485
- end of so-called Wars of the Roses: dynastic conflict between the nobles houses of Lancaster (red rose) and York (white rose)
- Tudor rose: the heraldic emblem of the Tudors (and later of England)
- Tudor myth (Tillyard)
Henry VIII (1491-1547)
1521 tract against Luther => fidei defensor
Pope refused to annul marriage with Catharine of Aragon
Henry broke with Rome, Act of Supremacy 1534:
Head of the Church of England
monasteries dissolved 1536-1539
commissioned translation of Bible,
published for general use 1539
successors: Mary, Edward, Elizabeth
Elizabeth I
(1558-1603)
William Shakespeare
born in Stratford 1564
attended grammar school
1592 in London as actor and playwright
The Lord Chamberlain’s Men / King’s Men
Globe theatre erected 1599
died 1616
Ben Jonson
(1572-1637)
William Caxton
brought print to Britain
James I (VI of Scotland),
Jacobean age
Stuart dynasty
Charles I
Execution of Charles I January 1649,
successor: Charles II, flees to France 1651
Charles II
returns from exile in 1660
John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
very strong influence from France and french culture
Aphra Behn
first woman we know of who could live by her writing
Queen Anne (1702-14)
last monarch from the Stuart line
Dr Samuel Johnson
arbitor of taste, critic of literature
taught ppl how to identify good/ bad literature
he set standarts
first to make a dictionary
age of reason and age of enlightenment
Alexander Pope
prettyism
whats good taste in poetry+how good poetry should be written
Samuel Richardson
female readership
conduct book
epistolary novel, novel in letters, “writing to the moment”
