WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF

RENAISSANCE

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International Islamic University , Islamabad

Renaissance

Development In

different fields

Monarchy

Lust for Libidos

(Rebirth of Knowledge)

Enlightment Of

Human mindAge of Drama (Greek & Roman)

Revival of chivalry

Humanistic cultural reformation

Reformation

Fall of Constantinople

Roman Cat holism

Inventions

RENAISSANCE????

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Renaissance means rebirth and Europe was recovering from the Dark ages

People had lost the in faith in the church and began to put more focus on human beings.

The Renaissance began as revival of interest in the literature and culture of ancient Greece and Rome. Its emphasis was on the richness of earthly life and on human achievements. One result of the Renaissance spirit was a brilliant period of creativity in the arts.

-Originally referred to a new interest in the learning of ancient Greece and Rome, which began in 1300’s.

Fall of Constantinople caused revival of learning through out Europe.

Late in the Middle Ages, European rulers gained new authority, while the absolute authority of the Church began to be questioned. At the same time, a long period of wars, epidemics, and economic upheaval in Europe came to an end. A new spirit of optimism, confidence, and creativity emerged. In the fourteenth century, these developments led to the start of a remarkable period that is known as the Renaissance.

INVENTIONS……

PRINTING PRESS

1455 Moveable type printing Developed in Germany Associated with Gutenberg 1456 the first Gutenberg Bible was

printed Printing press allowed for the spread of

knowledge and ideas throughout Europe

CLOCK The idea of quantification developed The universe came to be conceived in

more quantifiable terms (measurable terms)

Allowed for more precise measurements Changed the focus of daily life which had

been guided by the rhythms of the Church

COLUMBUS

COLUMBUS discovered America in Renaissance….

COPERNICUS

Attempted to prove that the sun rather than the earth is at the centre of planetary system…………….

OTHER DEVLOPMENTS

Advances in the fields of chemistry and medicine

Antoine van LeeuwenhoekMicroscopes

Isaac NewtonInvented calculus

Social Condition

CHURUCHES WERE

DOMINENT

CORRUPTION IN

CHURCH

BLIND SUBMITTION TO POPE’S COMMAND

GREAT CHAIN OF

BEING

CLASS SYSTEM

KING AND QUEENS

POPE

KNIGHT

PEASANTS

POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS CONDITIONS

The end of the medieval period in Europe was marked by changes in attitudes towards politics, religion, and learning.

These changes became more widespread and sweeping during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, bringing about the cultural movement called Renaissance and the religious movement known as the Reformation.

Main features of political condition:

PROTESTANT REFORMATION (Martin Luther) MONARCHY

KING HENRY VIII FEUDALISM

Martin Luther

Associated with the Protestant Reformation

Critical of Church corruption and abuses

Sought reform Wrote the first

translation of the Bible in German

The Ninety-Five Theses listed the crimes of the Catholic Church & demanded change or reform.

THE PROTESTANTREFORMATION

The people began to call for a reform of the Catholic Church.

In Germany, this friction split the church and a new group

was created called the Protestants.The protestant reformation was a movement that seemed to reject medieval form of Christianity .

The series of events that led to the split of the

Church & the creation of this new group became known As the Protestant

Reformation

The church is not a social ladderwhere some people are more important

thanothers.

All the jobs in the church are equally important. The jobs were called Vocations.

The Lutherans called their leaders ministers instead of priests.

Humanism

Man was centre of attention…….

Humanism

ART IN RENAISSANCE

Renaissance Artists embraced some of the ideals of Greece and Rome in their art

They wanted their subjects to be realistic and focused on humanity and emotion

New Techniques also emerged

Frescos: Painting done on wet plaster became popular because it gave depth to

the paintings Sculpture emphasized realism and the

human form Architecture reached new heights of

design

Literature in Renaissance

Literature is the expression of human life ,emotions and feelings through the medium of language.

It is defined as the imaginative reconstruction of Human life.

GENRE OF LITERATURE

DRAMA

PROSEPOETRY

DRAMA

It is a literary composition involving conflict, actions, crisis and atmosphere designed to be acted by players on a stage before an audience.

Important plays: Ralph Roister Doister by Nicholas

Udall(comedy). Grummer Gurton’s needle by John Still

(comedy).

Gorbuduc by Thomas Sackville (tragedy). Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, As you like it,

Macbeth are the famous plays by William Shakespeare.

The Silent Woman, The Alchemist are the comedies by Ben Johnson.

Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (Tragedy).

POETRY

It is a composition that evokes emotion and imagination by the use of vivid, intense language, usually arranged in a pattern of words or lines with a regularly repeated accent or stress.

Edmund Spenser wrote Faerie Queene, Shepherd’s Calendar, Amoretti, Epithalamion.

Diver’s Doth Use and To rail or jest by Thomas Wyatt.

My Lute Awake and They Flee from me by Sir Walter Raleigh.

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighori.

PROSE

The word is derived from the Latin prosa or proversa oratio, ‘straight forward discourse’. Thus a direct unadorned form of language, written or spoken in ordinary usage.

Praise of Folly by Erasmus. Utopia by Sir Thomas More.

RENAISSANCE ALSO KNOWN AS:

Elizabethan age Age of Shakespeare Age of Drama Age of Enlightment

CONCLUSION:

Renaissance means the revival of learning and it denotes in its broadest sense the gradual enlightment of the human mind after the darkness of the Middle Ages.

Religion was dominant in this era so most of the literary work was mainly depicting religious themes.

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