History stuff about the Renae-sauce
Mainly the European Renaissance happened in the country of __________.
Italy
Before this time, the only English Bible had been translated directly from
Latin
Typically poets were not published until ____________, like Wyatt and Sidney.
They died.
(Posthumously)
The leading entertainment of the era was...
poetry and plays.
Believed that only a select few could read scripture and interpret it correctly, which must be done in accordance with the indoctrination of the Catholic church.
Sir Thomas More
British religious history reaches a bit of consistency under the reign of _____________ who did not seem to persecute the other religious side.
Queen Elizabeth
Name one of the three Bible translations done in this era...
Tyndale
Geneva
King James Version
His sonnet sequence is not about unrequited love, like so many others, but ends with the couple married at the end!
The lovers will be remembered because their story is in a poem instead of written in the sand.
Edmund Spenser (Amoretti)
Who is Spenser's ideal "gentleman warrior" in The Faerie Queen?
The Knight of the Red Cross
These two guys had a Tudor Twitter war over their opposing religious beliefs.
More and Tyndale
The worst religious persecution in this era was under ________________ who had thousands of Protestants killed.
(Bloody) Mary
In 1526 Tyndale completed translating this from Greek.
New Testament
Was a great poet and dramatist, who may have overshadowed Shakespeare if he hadn't died young.
Christopher Marlowe
The two lovers in Sidney's long poem...
Astrophil and Stella
(Star-lover and Star)
Poet, Prisoner, Courtier, Expedition Leader
Sir Walter Raleigh
A system of thought that focuses on humans and their values, capacities, and worth.
humanism
Tyndale re-translated words that sounded very ___________, or at least supported those doctrines.
Catholic
Studied the classic Italian poets and brought the Italian Sonnet to England.
Wyatt
In Sidney's poem, the knight performs well in a certain tournament because...
The girl he loves (Stella) is there in the audience
Compiled The Book of Common Prayer.
Cranmer
List 4 of the 5 rulers of the Tudor monarchy
Henry VII, Henry 8, Edward 6, Mary, Elizabeth
Put an end to some arguing about how many services and procedures should occur within the Church of England (Anglican Church).
The Book of Common Prayer
The classic Italian poet, whose sonnet style is copied by the British poets.
Petrarch
Raleigh's poem, "What is Our Life?" uses a _______________ ____________ when it compares life to a theater play.
metaphoric conceit
The two men responsible for Acts and Monuments, AKA The Book of Martyrs.
John Foxe and John Day