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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

 



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