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ENG 336: Midterm Study Terms
History & People
"renaissance"
1485 – 1603 – Elizabeth I (Elizabethan era)
1603-1625; James I (Jacobean era)
Stuart dynasty
Tudor dynasty
Henry VII
Henry VIII
Edward VI
Mary Tudor (Mary I)
Elizabeth I
Mary, Queen of Scots
Desiderius Erasmus
Thomas More
Anne Boleyn
Thomas Wyatt
Sir Thomas Hoby
Count Baldassare Castiglione
Arthur Golding
Philip Sidney
William Shakespeare
Lady Mary Wroth
Edmund Spenser
Francis Drake
Walter Ralegh
Thomas Hariot
“Natural Philosophy”
alchemy
empiricism
four elements
four humours
hierarchy
Microcosm/macrocosm
scala naturae
sublunary world
tripartite soul
Humanism/Classical Material/ Platonism/Neoplatonism
Aristotle's Poetics
Astraea
Eden/Elysium/Isles of the Blest
Erasmus, Petrarch, More
courtesy book
courtier
Golden World
humanism
Hythloday
Ladder of Love
Neoplatonism
the One
Plato
Plotinus
quadrivium
Republic
trivium
Utopia
Literature and rhetoric
allegory/four-fold allegory
artifice/"artificial"/originality
classicism
conceit
concordia discors
copia
court
"darke conceit"
emblem
English/Italian sonnet forms
epic
metaphysical conceit
muse
(names and places in The Fairie Queene)
patronage
Petrarchan sonnet conventions
romance
sonnet
sprezzatura
Theology
Anglicanism
Book of Common Prayer
Church of England
exegesis
heresy
Inquisition
Jesuit
Martin Luther
Protestant Reformation
Seven Deadly Sins
Seven Corporeal Works of Mercy
William Tyndale
Whore of Babylon
