英國文學(xué)課件lecture3renaissance-文庫吧資料
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【正文】 rature and the fine arts. The Historical Background of English Renaissance Generally speaking, the 16th century in England witnessed the establishment of an absolute monarchy, which inspired English people’s wishes for a peaceful and powerful country. The rising middle class supported the monarchy, which weakened feudal relations and paved the way for the development of capitalism. The national strengthening of England experienced the following stages: The civil wars, such as the War of the Roses (14551458), killed off large numbers of feudal noblemen in England, and weakened the feudal power. So it became easier for Henry VII (14851509) and Henry VIII (15091547) to centralize political power and lay the foundations for a strong monarchy. The landenclosure movement: the land of some feudal lords was confiscated, the land of peasants enclosed. Peasants lost their land and became factory labor. This movement urbanized, even began to industrialize England, and also strengthened national power. Protestantism: Henry VIII broke off with the Roman Pope, dissolved all the monasteries and abbeys in the country, confiscated their lands and proclaimed himself head of the Church of England. The Writers of the English Renaissance ? The key literary figures in the English Renaissance are now generally considered to be the poet Edmund Spenser。 Lecture 3 An Age of Renaissance An Overview of Renaissance The aspects of the Renaissance Background and Writers of The English Renaissance How Renaissance occurred in Europe? In 1453, the Turks seized Constantinople which had been the center of Mediterranean civilization for a thousand years. When Constantinople fell to the hands of the Turks, many of its Greek teachers fled with their libraries to Italy and taugh
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