LIFE AND LITERATURE

THE STUART AGE (1603-1714) Introduction:             Queen Elizabeth did not marry and so when she died there was no legitimate heir to the throne in the Tudor dynasty. But before her death, she had expressed the desire that kings James VI of Scotland should be her successor. King James VI was the great-grandson of James IV who married Margaret, daughter of HenryVII thus the House of Tudor and the House of Stuart were connected by marriage. The Main occurs are given below. Gun powder plot:             James I (1603-1625)was the great-grandson of Henry VII’s daughter . When he asserted the throne, he called himself “king of Great Britain” . The Roman Catholics in England hoped for much from a son of Catholic Mary, king of Scots. As soon as he became king. James was inclined to be tolerant and waived the fine that Roman Catholics had to pay for not going to their Anglican parish churches. Encouraged by this move, Hundreds of Catholic priests from abroad came to Engl

REFORMATION & COUNTER-REFORMATION The   English Reformation   was a series of events in 16th century   England   by which the   Church of England   broke away from the authority of the   Pope   and the   Catholic Church.             FOR PERSONAL REASONS, Henry VIII (1491-1547) of England  broke with the Church of Rome and established the Church of England, with himself as to its secular head. He appointed an Archbishop of Canterbury as its spiritual leader. England moved beyond permanent Catholic control, although much of the Catholic liturgy and governance by bishops was adopted into the tradition of the Anglican Church (Episcopal, in America). These events were, in part, associated with the wider process of the European   Protestant Reformation, a religious and political movement that affected the practise of   Christianity   across most of   Europe   during this period. Many factors contributed to the process: the decline of   feudalism   and the rise of   nationalism,

  Through this "Life and Literature" Blog, we can learn more    about literature, first we learn                    Social History of England .                                                               RENAISSANCE                          The term ' renaissance ' is derived from the French word  meaning  'rebirth'.                            It is used to describe this phase of European history because many of the                          changes experienced between the 14th and 16th centuries were inspired by                           a  revival of the classical art and intellect of Ancient Greece and Rome . The English Renaissance was a c ultural  and  artistic movement  in England dating from the late 15th and early 16th centuries to the early 17th century. It is associated with the pan-European  Renaissance  that is usually regarded as beginning in Italy in the late 14th century. These are the period of the European Renais

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