REVIVAL OF LEARNING(1400-1550)

•Gradual enlightenment of the human mind after the darkness of the Middle Ages.

• literaehumaniores,- the "more human writings,“ than the old

theology

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Eventually literature & poetry was written in language common people could understand

Latin was the primary language of higher learning in western Europe during the Middle Ages

Vernacular: Language of everyday speech in a region

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First Printing Press-1476 (William Caxton in Bruges, in collaboration with a Fleming, Collard Mansion)

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The first book to be printed in English was produced in 1473-74: Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, a translation by Caxton himself

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Le Morte d'Arthur is a compilation by Sir Thomas Malory of Romance tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, and the Knights of the Round Table.

Malory probably started work on Le Morte d'Arthur while he was in prison in the early 1450s and completed it by 1470. It was printed on 1485 by Caxton

The Middle English of Le Morte D'Arthur is much closer to Early Modern English than the Middle English of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. If the spelling is modernized, it reads almost like Elizabethan English.

This is said to be the GREATEST ENGLISH WORK.

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In Praise of Folly Latin: Stultitiae Laus, sometimes translated as In Praise of More, is an essay written in Latin in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam and first printed in 1511

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Utopia by Thomas More was written in Latin, is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Printed on 1516

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The Tyndale Bible generally refers to the body of biblical translations by William Tyndale. Tyndale’s Bible is credited with being the first English translation to work directly from Hebrew and Greek texts of thee entire New Testament and roughly half of the Old Testament

It was printed on 1525.

His English version of the Pentateuch was printed on 1530

1539, the Great Bible was approved. as the first authorized edition of the Bible in English, authorized by King Henry VIII of England to be read aloud in the church services of the Church of England. The Great Bible was prepared by Myles Coverdale, working under commission of Sir Thomas Cromwell, Secretary to Henry VIII and Vicar General

HIGHLIGHTSIntroduction of the sonnet and blank verse by Sir Thomas Wyatt and of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey,1530 Songes and Sonettes, usually called Tottel's Miscellany, was the first printed anthology of English poetry. It was published by Richard Tottel in 1557, and ran to many editions in the sixteenth century.Tottel's Miscellany is the first printed collection of miscellaneous English poems, printed on 1557.