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 cultural 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 Renaissance or
New Birth, one of the three or four great transforming movements of European
history. The Renaissance movement first received definite direction from the
rediscovery and study of Greek literature, which clearly revealed the unbounded
possibilities of life to men who had been groping dissatisfied within the now
narrow limits of medieval thought.
- The term Renaissance
can be applied in many fields of literature like Inventions, age of
translation, education,discovery and art and architecture.
- In invention the art of printing was
introduced in to Europe by John Gutenberg of Germany in 1415.Another
invention of great important was the "Mariners compass" which enabled
sailors to undertake longer voyage.
- The period of the Renaissance
was also an age of translation Virgil , Ovid,
Cicero Demosthenes and Plutarch were all translated
into English.
- Columbus discover the continent of America in 1492. Vasco Da Gama reached
Calicut on the west coast of India in 1498. Magellan set out on his
exploration of the pacific in 1519.
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