RENAISSANCE

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RENAISSANCE

• 1485 - 1660

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Rebirth in Interest in Classical literature

• Began in Italy Why?
• Petrarch
• Bocaccio
• de Medici
• da Vinci
• Michelangelo

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Sistine Chapel
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Pieta
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England in the Renaissance

• (War of the Roses)
• Sir Thomas More Humanists Utopia
• 1517
• 1534
• 1558 1603
• 1588

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Elizabeth I
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• Diplomat Sir Francis Drake and
• King Phillip II of Spain
• Moderate religion

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Elizabethan Tastes and Attitudes

• Great Chain of Being (p139)
• Evidence of Elizabethan preference for
• Pattern, order, detail, intricate pattern

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End of Tudor Monarchs

• Elizabeth I died in 1603.
• James I, the first of the Stewart monarchs came
  to the throne.

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Jacobean Era1603 - 1625

• James -- not political. More interested in
  scholarly interests. Sponsored translation of
  Latin Bible into English. King James version
  of the Bible, 1623.
• Religious unrest
• Puritans purify
• Copernicus and Galileo

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This ends the period of time we will cover before
Christmas.

• (To be continued)

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Civil War 1642 - 1660

• 1642 Charles I beheaded. Launched Civil War
• Roundheads vs. Cavaliers
• Oliver Cromwell
• Protectorate
• Rump Parlaiment

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Cromwell
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Restoration1660
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Charles II
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• Order, Art
• Restored