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English Renaissance1485-1625
•Renaissance means “Rebirth”
•Time period was a flowering of art, literature, painting,
science, etc…
•Began in Italy with individuals such as Leonardo Da Vinci (painter, sculptor, engineer,
scientist, etc…)
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English Renaissance• People’s focus turned to human’s
place on earth instead of afterlife
• Learning included history, geography, poetry, and languages
• Printing turned to moveable type – the Bible believed to be the first book published this way
• English became more standard as writers began to use common people’s language
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English Renaissance• Age of Exploration
– Invention of the compass and study of astronomy opened the world to exploration
– Europeans (other than Vikings) began to venture into the oceans
• Protestant Reformation
– Publication of the Bible started a stink
– Questioning of the Roman Catholic Church
– Began with Martin Luther and his 95 Theses (a list of complaints against the Roman Catholic Church)
– Sparked by money, independent thinking, and science
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English Renaissance• War of the Roses ended &
Tudor dynasty founded
• Henry VII restored monarchy & treasury
• Henry VIII – son of Henry VII – Catholic (right now)
– Ultimate renaissance man
– Had 6 wives
•Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, & survived.
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Henry VIII’s Wives• Catherin of Aragon – Catholic
– Married for 20+ years
– Only one child – Mary Tudor
– Henry met and fell for Anne Boleyn
– Henry requested an annulment•Pope said NO
– Henry requested a divorce•Pope said NO
– Henry declared himself head of the Church of England•Seized monasteries & lands held by the
Catholic Church
•Granted his own divorce
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Henry VIII’s Wives• Anne Boleyn – protestant
– Married Henry after divorce
– Produced two children
•Elizabeth & still-born son
– Strong and independent minded
– Had many enemies at court
– Henry met & fell for Jane Seymour
– Henry had Anne executed on false charges of adultery, witchcraft, incest, & treason
Anne's Ghost Story
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Henry VIII’s Wives• Jane Seymour - protestant
– Had been a lady-in-waiting to both
Catherine & Anne
– Son born – Edward – sickly &
died young
– Jane died of a fever shortly after Edward’s birth
– Henry didn’t remarry for 3 years following her death
– He is buried next to her
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Henry VIII’s Wives
• Anne of Cleaves - protestant
– German
– Not attractive – heavy boned
– Portrait was much more flattering than the real thing!
– Marriage annulled almost immediately
– They remained friends until Henry’s death
– Anne was considered a “sister” of the king
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Henry VIII’s Wives
• Catherine Howard
– protestant
– Young and “unchaste”
– In love with a cousin
– Married to Henry only two years
– Beheaded on real charges of adultery, incest, and treason
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Henry VIII’s Wives• Catherine Parr
– protestant
– Her mother had been Catherine’s
attendant
– Managed to outlive Henry VIII
– It is possible she had been in love with Thomas Seymour (Jane’s brother)
Catherine Parr's Ghost
Story
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An Allegory of the Tudor Succession:
The Family of Henry VIII
By: Lucas de Heere
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King Edward VI
• Protestant King
• Henry VIII’s only son
• Crowned at the age of 9
• Died at age of 15
• Named Lady Jane Grey (protestant) as heir
• Caused an uproar until they Privy Council named Mary Tudor the rightful heir
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Queen Mary I (Bloody Mary)• Practicing Catholic
• Restored Roman Catholicism
to England
• Married to Phillip II of Spain
• Executed nearly 300 protestants – burned at the stake
• Died of cancer (abdominal) after two phantom pregnancies
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Queen Elizabeth I• The “Virgin Queen” – never
married
• Last of the Tudor line
• Compared to William, the Conqueror
• “Patron of the Arts” –Elizabeth has come to represent the Renaissance at its height
• Reestablished Protestantism
– all in moderation
• Still she had her problems
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Mary, Queen of Scots• Catholic great-granddaughter of
Henry VII
• Married to Phillip II of Spain (yes, the same one who was wed to Mary I)
• Catholics wanted her crowned– did not recognize Henry VIII’s
marriage to Anne Boleyn or Elizabeth as legitimate
• Mary was a prisoner for 19 years in England and the center for numerous plots against Elizabeth
Mary in captivity, c. 1578
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Mary, Queen of Scots• Elizabeth finally executed her in
1587 after a foiled murder plot• Spain declared war on England
(Elizabeth did execute the Queen of Spain)
• Spanish Armada attacked and was defeated by Privateers – Privateers had been raiding and
sinking Spanish vessels with Elizabeth’s “knowledge”
• The execution of Mary, Q of S was just the excuse the Spanish needed
Replica of Mary,
Q of S’s tomb
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James I of England• James VI of Scotland (son of
Mary, Queen of Scots) –Protestant
• Elizabeth named him her heir when he agreed to convert to Protestantism
• Continued Elizabeth’s passionate support of the arts
• Macbeth was written by Shakespeare for James I
• Jacobean Era
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James I of England• Jamestown is named for
him
• Dark spot in rule was his persecution of the Puritans
• Commissioned a retranslation and rework of the Bible known today as the King James Version
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Elizabethan Age Literature• Explosion of cultural energy – architects,
sculptors, painters, composers, & writers
– Narratives, poetry, dramas, and comedies all expressed the spirit of the renaissance
• Elizabethan Poetry
– Sonnets are the most famous remnant of Elizabethan poetry
– Poets moved away from narratives in favor of lyrical poems
• Sonnets – Sidney, Spenser, and Shakespeare
– a sonnet is a 14 line poem usually written in iambic pentameter with a varying rhyme scheme
– Sonnets were often written in collections called cycles that told a loose story
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Elizabethan Age Literature• Two primary types of sonnets
– English
• Divided into three quatrains (sets of 4 lines) and a
couplet (set of two lines)
– The couplet provides the theme (main point) for the
sonnet
• Rhyme Scheme – Shakespearean or Spenserian
– Shakespearean - abab cdcd efef gg
– Spenserian – abab bcbc cdcd ee
– Petrarchan or Italian
• Divided into an octave (set of 8 lines) which
presents a problem or a quest and a sestet (set of
6 lines) which solves it
• Rhyme Scheme – abbaabba cdecde or cdcdcd