The English Renaissance

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The English Renaissance

• 1485-1625

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The Renaissance Period

• End of the War of the Roses (Medieval Pd)
• time of monarchs and religious transformation
• England was a refuge from war and the envy of
  other nations (prior to this time, the land was
  in near constant war and chaos)

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Shakespeares poem page 200

• a Garden of Eden
• a paradise
• a refuge from war
• blessed
• the envy of other countries

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What is a renaissance?

• Renaissance rebirth
• time of artistic, literary, and
• intellectual developments
• began in Florence, Italy in the 14th century
• continued throughout Europe until 1660

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Characteristics of the Renaissance

• Why are human beings on earth? What happens when
  we die?
• Humanities Curriculum
• Printing Press
• the vernacular (local language)
• The result of all this restructured England and
  people grew curious about mans potential.

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Exploration the thirst for knowledge

• Crusades
• opened routes to Asia
• trade and further exploration
• Spain and Portugal
• sought all sea route
• Columbus discovered new world in 1492 (America)
• England
• John Cabot reached Newfoundland in 1497
• basis for future claims in America

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Protestant Reformation

• People began to question the authority of the
  Roman Catholic Church
• Martin Luther
• divided the Roman Catholic Church into
  Protestants and Catholics
• Lutherans
• Presbyterians
• Calvans
• Religious prosecution

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The Tudor Dynasty(1485-1603)

• Henry VII
• Catholic
• inherited England after the War of the Roses,
  when the country was depleted and exhausted
• rebuilt the nations treasury and established law
  and order

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The Tudor Dynasty(cont.)

• Henry VIII
• Catholic
• Defender of the Faith
• shunned by Catholic Church
• Act of Supremacy
• married 6 times total
• Catherine of Aragon
• Mary I
• Anne Boleyn
• Elizabeth I
• Jane Seymour
• Edward VI

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The Tudor Dynasty(cont.)

• Edward VI
• Protestant
• 9 year old king died _at_ 15

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The Tudor Dynasty(cont.)

• Mary I
• Catholic
• King Phillip II
• Bloody Mary

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The Tudor Dynasty(cont.)

• Elizabeth I
• Protestant
• last of the Tudors
• Renaissance education
• religious moderation
• ensured peace in England
• not recognized by Catholics
• Spanish Armada

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The Stuart Dynasty

• James VI
• Protestant
• Jamestown, VA
• religious intolerance

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Renaissance Achievements

• Educational Institutions
• Universities of Oxford and Cambridge
• Architecture
• Anglican hymns
• English Madrigal

Oxford University
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Elizabethan Poets

• William Shakespeare
• Christopher Marlowe
• Edmund Spenser
• Phillip Sydney
• Sir Walter Raleigh

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Elizabethan Drama

• Change of subjects from religion to
• Tragedies
• Comedies
• Included
• Imagery
• Rich language
• Poets
• William Shakespeare
• Christopher Marlowe

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Elizabethan Prose

• King James Bible
• the printing was ordered by King James