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THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD

THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD. “Renaissance” 1500-1700. Contents. Related and alternative designations Changing conditions Chronology Important Dates Outstanding Persons Major Atributes of the Language. RELATED AND ALTERNATIVE DESIGNATIONS. EARLY MODERN ENGLISH ENGLISH RENAISSANCE

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THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD

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  1. THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD • “Renaissance” • 1500-1700

  2. Contents • Related and alternative designations • Changing conditions • Chronology • Important Dates • Outstanding Persons • Major Atributes of the Language

  3. RELATED AND ALTERNATIVE DESIGNATIONS EARLY MODERN ENGLISH ENGLISH RENAISSANCE THE ELIZABETHAN AGE

  4. PERIODS OF BRITISH LITERATURE

  5. About Timelines Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. Thomas Mann, novelist, Nobel laureate (1875-1955)

  6. 450-1066: Old English (or Anglo-Saxon) Period

  7. 1066-1500: Middle English Period

  8. 1500-1660: The Renaissance • 1500-1558: Tudor Period • 1558-1603: Elizabethan Age • 1603-1625: Jacobean Age • 1625-1649: Caroline Age • 1649-1660: Commonwealth Period (or Puritan Interregnum)

  9. 1660-1785: The Eighteenth Century:The Neoclassical Period • 1660-1700: The Restoration • 1700-1745: The Augustan Age (or Age of Pope) • 1745-1785: The Age of Sensibility (or Age of Johnson)

  10. 1785-1830: The Romantic Period The Age of Revolution

  11. 1830-1901: The Victorian Period Early, Middle and Late Victorian • 1848-1860: The Pre-Raphaelites • 1880-1901: Aestheticism and Decadence

  12. 1901-1960: The Modern Period • 1901-1910: The Edwardian era • 1910-1914: The Georgian era

  13. 1960 - present: Postmodern Period

  14. CHRONOLOGY Rulers Historical Events Literary Events

  15. Some Relevant Periods and eras in English History • Tudor period (1485–1603) • Elizabethan era (1558–1603) • Stuart Period (1603–1714)

  16. Related and Alternative Designations • Early Modern English (1500-1700) • English Renaissance • The Elizabethan Age (1485-1625) • The Elizabethan Era (Queen Elizabeth I’s Reign 1558–1603) • The Golden Age in English History

  17. CHANGING CONDITIONS FACTORS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO LANGUAGE IN MODERN TIMES

  18. Changing Conditions in the Development of English • Printing Press • Rapid spread of popular Education • Commerce, transportation and rapid means of communication • Growth of specialized knowledge • Emergence of various forms of self-consciouness about language (Baugh 200)

  19. Factor 1:THE PRINTING PRESS

  20. Printing introduced into England about 1476The printer's device of William Caxton, 1478. • Invention of printing from movable type exercised a far-reaching influence in the vernacular languages of Europe.

  21. Printing PressPrinted BooksSome Data • 35000 Books (majority in Latin) printed in Europe before 1500 • Over 20000 Titles in England by 1640

  22. The Printing PressWilliam Caxton (c. 1415~1422 – c.1492) • English merchant, diplomat, writer and • First English person to work as a printer • First person to introduce a printing press into England. • First English retailer of books (his London contemporaries were all Dutch, German or French).

  23. Printing PressEffects on the English Language • Standardisation of the English language (that is, homogenising regional dialects). • Expansion of English vocabulary. • Development of inflection and syntax • Ever-widening gap between the spoken and the written word.

  24. Printing Press, Popular Education and Literacy DURING THE CENTURY and a half of the English Renaissance, the printing press became the indispensable disseminator of the written word and its use was accompanied by a corresponding spread of popular education and literacy.

  25. Factor 2:RAPID SPREAD OF POPULAR EDUCATION

  26. Rapid Spread of Popular Education: In the Later Middle Ages a surprising number of people could read and write • A valentine letter from Norfolk-based Margery Brews to her lover John Paston III about their forthcoming marriage (1477)

  27. Rapid Spread of Popular EducationIn Shakespeare’s London probably half of the people could at least read

  28. Rapid Spread of Popular Education:17th and 18thProsperous trade class with means to obtain education • Increase in the number of schools • Journalistic output of Defoe • Rapid rise of the novel

  29. Factor 3:COMMERCE, TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNICATION • Exchange of commodities and exchange of ideas are stimulating to language. • Extension of trade enlarged vocabulary. • Diversification results from transportation • Unification results from ease of travel and communication.

  30. People in contact – Diversification and Unification

  31. Intermingling of language and lessening of altered local idiosyncracies

  32. Factor 4:GROWTH OF SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE • New knowledge requires new vocabulary • Latin less the vehicle for learning

  33. Factor 5:SELF-CONSCIOUNESS ABOUT LANGUAGE • INDIVIDUAL: Adopting language standards to improve social level (similar to conformity to fashions). • PUBLIC: e.g. 16th C. debates about orthography • 17th and 18th C. proposals for an academy • 20th language planning in former colonies

  34. Tudor period (1485–1603)

  35. House of Tudor: Tudor Dynasty

  36. The Tudors: Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Lady Jane, Mary I and Elizabeth I

  37. Mary I and Queen Elizabeth I

  38. Henry VIII (1491 – 1547) • King of England and Lord of Ireland, • Later King of Ireland and claimant to the Kingdom of France, from 1509 until his death. • Henry was the second monarch of the House of Tudor, succeeding his father, Henry VII.

  39. Katharine of Aragon, m. 1509 – 1533 Divorced1485 –1536; Spanish: Henry's first wife. • After death of Arthur, her first husband and Henry's brother, papal dispensation necessary to enable her to marry Henry • Catherine bore him a daughter in 1516, Mary I, but no sons who survived past infancy since they were miscarriages and stillborn.

  40. Anne Boleyn m.1533 - 1536 Executed1501/1507–19 May 1536 • Second wife of Henry VIII of England and mother of Elizabeth I of England. • Henry's marriage to Anne, and her execution, made her a key player in the political upheaval that was the start of the Reformation.

  41. Jane Seymour m.1536 – 1537 Died Birth: c.mid-1508 Death: 1537 • Henry's third wife. • One of Anne Boleyn's ladies-in-waiting. • She gave him his only male heir, later Edward VI, but died shortly after birth of puerperal fever.

  42. Anne of Cleves m.1540 Jan – July Divorced (1515 – 1557) • Henry's fourth wife, for only six months in 1540. • Known as "The Flanders Mare" (the king disliked her appearance). • She was given the name "The King's Sister“ (friend to him and his children. • She outlived both the king and his last two wives.

  43. Kathryn Howard (1520? –1542)m.1540 – 1542 Executed • Henry's fifth wife • Sometimes known as "the rose without a thorn". • Henry was informed of her alleged adultery on November 1, 1541. • After being deprived of the title of Queen, she was beheaded at the Tower of London.

  44. Katherine Parr (1512 – 1548) m.1543 – 1547 Widowed • The sixth and last wife of Henry VIII • The most married queen of England: four husbands in all; Henry was her third spouse. • After Henry's death, married Thomas Seymour, had one child by Seymour, Mary, and died in childbirth.

  45. Edward VI(son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour).

  46. Lady Jane Grey (1536 – 1554) • Reign 6 July/10 July 1553 – 19 July 1553 • Predecessor Edward VI • Successor Mary I • Consort Lord Guilford Dudley • Detail l Titles and styles HM The QueenLady Jane DudleyLady Jane Grey • Born1536-1537Died February 12, 1554 (aged 16)Tower of London (executed) • Burial St Peter ad Vincula, London

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