A Renaissance Man
Again, a Renaissance Man
Renaissance Works
Faerie Queen
From the Study Guide
100
He was the master of 8 languages.
Who is William Tyndale
100
This man is credited with inventing blank verse.
Who is Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
100
This work by William Tyndale teaches justification by faith.
What is Parable of the Wicked Mammon
100
This man wrote Faerie Queen
Who is Edmund Spenser
100
The meaning of Renaissance
What is rebirth.
200
Utopia was his crowning achievement in 1516.
Who is Sir Thomas More
200
His Arcadia is known as the best prose fiction of that time.
Who is Sir Philip Sidney
200
This was written about ideal societies.
What is Utopia.
200
Gloriana (the faerie queen) is symbolic for this person.
Who is Queen Elizabeth
200
The Tudor monarchs felt it was important to have this kind of heir to continue the Tudor line of kings.
What is male
300
He is, perhaps, the most important figure/author in the history of the Book of Common Prayer.
Who is Thomas Cranmer
300
The writing of The Shepherd's Calendar was designed to launch his poetic career.
Who is Edmund Spenser?
300
This was also known as the Elizabethan Prayer Book.
What is the Book of Common Prayer.
300
The number of books that Spenser completed for the Faerie Queen.
What is 6.
300
The increasing middle class encouraged the growth of this religious change.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
400
The Book of Martyrs is what this man is famously known for writing.
Who is John Foxe.
400
He preferred to write in Latin, but because of his feeling of obligation to his country's common people, chose to write in English.
Who is John Foxe?
400
This work by John Foxe was to keep England from turning back from the Scriptures to spiritual bondage.
What is Acts and Monuments or Foxe's Book of Martyrs
400
The first virtue that is treated in Faerie Queen.
What is Holiness
400
This Catholic Queen tried to quell Protestantism in England.
Who is Mary
500
This man gets the credit for introducing Renaissance verse forms and themes into England.
Who is Sir Thomas Wyatt
500
He is known as the "rising sun" of the English Reformation.
Who is William Tyndale
500
This work by Sidney is known as the best prose fiction of all time.
What is Arcadia.
500
This work was written to show suffering and hardship.
What is Foxe's Book of Martyrs or Acts and Monuments.
500
This term is described as England's new interest in profit making.
What is mercantilism.
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