Il Rinascimento inglese: riassunto
Breve storia del Rinascimento inglese: The English Renaissance, The Reformation, The years after Elizabeth, William Shakespeare, Elizabethan Theatre, Hamlet. Riassunto del Rinascimento inglese e le sue caratteristiche (5 pagine formato doc)
IL RINASCIMENTO INGLESE RIASSUNTO
The Renaissance was in many ways very different from that which had taken place in Italy a century before. The Italian Renaissance was a time of glory and explosion of great arts. In northern Europe the Renaissance was delayed and filtered by the Reformation and, in England, it was more widespread (diffusa), thanks to the reforms of Henry VIII, that have been reduced the Church's power.Hamlet: personaggi
The spirit of renaissance continued under the reign of Elizabeth I. IT is so difficult to say exactly when the English Renaissance ended, but it's clear that after Elizabeth death, the new king didn't support its spirit.
Rinascimento e Shakespeare: appunti di letteratura inglese
CARATTERISTICHE DEL RINASCIMENTO INGLESE
The English Renaissance as a time of huge expansion of knowledge in philosophy, literature, morality, sociality, science and religion.
The study of classical culture was reborn and it is from this "rebirth" that the Renaissance takes its name. Two historical events in particular were of fundamental importance for the rebirth: the fall of Constantinople and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain. The resulting movement of exiled peoples and cultures to other parts of Europe led to the integration of different cultures and allow the meeting between philosophers, scientists and artists from different parts of the world. In particular, the Kabbalah spread very quickly, thanks to the exile of many Jews.RINASCIMENTO INGLESE LETTERATURA
The Kabbalah referred of two activities:
1. discover the secrets of God through the use of numerology.
2. capture the power of superior things, like angels.
Francesco Giorgi was profoundly interested in Kabbalah. For him, the armony that the creato had given to each level of the universe was based on number.
The works and theories of Christian Cabalists like Giorgi constituted the dominant philosophy of the Elizabethan age.
Hamlet: simple summary
The spirit of Renaissance curiosity - In the Renaissance the spread of learning was assisted by technology of printing press. A key figure of Renaissance Humanism in Northern Europe was Erasmus of Rotterdam, who published a new latin version of the Greek Bible.
In a certain way we can say that the Renaissance was an age of confusion, because old medieval ideas of myth and astrology co-existed with the new progressive discoveries of science.
During the Renaissance the human figure and human thought took precedence over the divine sphere: this period is called Humanism. Man became the centre of artistic, cultural and moral enquiry and was exalted as the centre of the universe.
RINASCIMENTO INGLESE IN BREVE
The rise of modern science: Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo - Nicolaus Copernicus discovered that the earth and the other planets orbited around the sun, and that the earth spun on its own axis. This overtuned the medieval view of the cosmos, in which the earth was the fixed center of the universe around which the other planets and stars revolved in concentric circles. Kepler demonstrated that the planets did not move in circles, but in elliptical orbits, with the sun at one focus. In the end, Galileo Galilei discovered the importance of acceleration. He realized that only movement in a straight line could be considered natural. Galileo showed that every body, if left alone, would continue to move in a straight line. A change of speed or direction could only be explained by some outside force acting on the body.