Textuality » 3A Interacting
- Petrarch and Boccaccio ( writers)
- Giotto ( painter)
- Brunelleschi ( architecht)
- Donatelle ( sculptor)
- Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo ( artists)
Began in Italy in 14th century and it was a time of rebirth of intelletual and artistic energies that characteized ancient Greek and Roman civilization.
English Renaissance (1485-1660)
A time of rebirth
The Elizabethan period ( 1485-1603) The Jacobean period ( 1603-1660)
5 Monarchs:
- King James I ( 1603-1625)
- Ascension of King Charles
-Henry VII (1485-1509) ( King James I's son)
-Henry VIII ( 1509-1547) - Civil war
-Edward VI (1547-1553) - Puritan movement
-Mary I (1553-1558) - Oliver Cromwell, commander of the
-Elizabeth I (1558-1603) Parliament forces
- Beheading of Charles I
- Establishment of Protectorate with
She ruled longer than any other monarch Cromwell at head
during the Renaissance. - Military dictator ship
- Death of Cromwell (1658)
Territorial exploration and discovery - Return of Charles II as king (1660)
Columbus in 1492 - Election of Parliament
Sir Thomas More , centre of an active
and brilliant circle of English humanists.
Humanism : new way of looking at the world
questioning of authority and rise of rationalism
and skepticism .
More's Utopia (1516) first literary masterpiece
of the English Renaissance.
Copernicus and Galileo forerunner of modern astronomy
Protestant Reformation
-Martin Lutero, 95 theses Wittenberg, Germany
-King Henry VIII, no divorce by Pope
-Anglican Church
Ascension of Edward VI ( after Henry VIII)
Ascension of halfsister Mary I ( daughter of
Henry and Catherine of Aragon)
Reign of terror ( Bloody Mary)
Ascension of Elizabeth I ( daughter of Henry
and Anne Boleyn)
Most powerful nation
-Defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588
-Control of seas
-Smaller and more maneuverable ships
Entertainment
-First public theather near London in 1576