People with Notable Ideas
This group of people were preachers of not just reason but reasonableness. They preached the gospel of humanity and secularism. They were inundated with Enlightenment ideas and believed themselves to be part of a vast international movement
Who were the Philosophes?
"After all, I am not so violently bent upon my own opinion, as to reject any offer, proposed by wise men, which shall be found equally innocent, cheap, easy, and effectual."
Who is Jonathan Swift?
Many eras of time are given a name years after their occurrence. However, the Renaissance and ________were named by those living during those times.
What is the Enlightenment?
The term used in linguistics for the stage of language that came right after Middle English.
What is Early Modern?
This character in Shakespeare’s sonnet is the very antithesis of the Petrarchan mistress.
Who is the Dark Lady?
The function of this medium during the early to mid 18th century was to represent cross sections of society and how characters related to each other at the time.
What is the novel?
This male author believed that women should have the privilege of leaving the marriage compact by choice.
Who was John Locke?
“The clouds appeared to me to be land, which disappeared as they passed along. This heightened my wonder; and I was now more persuaded than ever that I was in another world, and that every thing about me was magic.”
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
A cultural and intellectual movement in Italy—a rebirth of the arts started by the recovery of artifacts and pagan classics.
What is the Renaissance?
Before and during Roman rule, this language was spoken by the bulk of the population and, for a long time, remained the dominant language.
What is Common Brittonic?
This author questions to what extent a human being can be dehumanized and reflects that, once the process of dehumanization has begun, the unfortunates become accustomed to their plight.
Who is Jonathan Swift?
What is Romance?
This author disagreed with John Locke’s attitude about women as preachers, saying, “Sir, a woman’s preaching is like a dog’s walking on his hindlegs. It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all.”
Who is Samuel Johnson?
“I told him I had, perhaps, different notions of matrimony from what the received custom had given us of it; that I thought a woman was a free agent as well as a man, and was born free, and could she manage herself suitably, might enjoy that liberty to as much purpose as the men do.”
Who is Daniel Defoe?
By the 14th century, humanism had pushed this form of reasoning out of the picture and caused it to be viewed as little more than organized quibbling over minor points of philosophy and theology.
What is Scholasticism?
This poetic form has fourteen lines that fall into two main divisions.
What is the Petrarchan sonnet?
A genre of medieval drama that employed the use of allegorical figures in order to convey a religious or moral idea.
What is the Morality play?
Up through the 19th century, this form of writing was expected to educate young people, historically women, of how they should act in terms of other classes, in terms of fulfilling pursuits proper to their place and station.
What is the novel?
The Catholic Church made this author a saint, but the Catholic bishops of sixteenth-century Spain and Portugal placed his major work on their list of prohibited books.
Who is Sir Thomas More?
“…perhaps he will read it and laugh, and light the fire in his furnace; but my hope is that he will quit his trifles, and betake himself to rational and useful diligence.”
Who is Samuel Johnson?
The process of this method was to
Read a book and note points of disagreement
Research the pros and cons of the issues
Summarize all issues/questions
What is Scholasticism?
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What is the Shakespearean sonnet?
This form of satire is a way of emphasizing folly or vice by deliberately describing it in a way that is different to the actual meaning, like pretending silly things are sensible or morally bad things are good.
What is verbal irony?
From the time of this author's first theatrical success at age 23, he only had 6 years left to live.
Who is Christopher Marlowe?
This man’s great legacy to Renaissance European literature is the language of self-description, which starts from the conventional hyperbole, antithesis, and oxymoron that characterized troubadour songs, provencal lyric, and classical love elegy.
Who is Francis Petrarch?
“For a man, not having the power of his own life, cannot by compact or his own consent enslave himself to any one, nor put himself under the absolute, arbitrary power of another, to take away his life, when he pleases.”
Who is John Locke?
This movement’s reexamination of the pagan classics stimulated the philosophy of secularism, the rejection of religion and the belief that it should not be part of politics of education
What is Humanism?
The man of the Renaissance lived between these two worlds.
What is faith and reason?: the medieval Christian matrix and the system of scientific concepts.
During the Renaissance, though the ideas of humanism sought to reform education, this remained at the core of the curriculum.
What is the study of Latin?
Had this author not lived, Humanism would have been seen as threatening to Christianity. His actions allowed Humanism to spread more effectively in the late 14th century.
Who is Francis Petrarch?
This author proposed that the mother should have control over raising children when the father was not present.
Who is John Locke?
"Far be it from her to stir up sedition of any sort, none can abhor it more, and she heartily wishes that our masters would pay their civil and ecclesiastical governors the same submission which they themselves exact from their domestic subjects."
Who is Mary Astell?
People from this era saw themselves as the social engineers of a New Europe. Their plans for social reform were a reflection of the world of abundance in which they lived.
What is the Enlightenment?
This type of women’s clothing was a mechanism designed to literally keep women in their place.
What is the crinoline?
This author's great work, based on a German story about an actual man, contained many elements obviously derived from the medieval morality plays.
Who is Christopher Marlowe?
The word for a "biography of saints or venerated persons."
What is a hagiography?