The Renaissance

Renaissance on the Continent n Public clock in Milan (1335) n Petrarch ( ) – Classicism – Humanism and education – Caroline script – Petrarch’s Academy n Printing press and other technological advances

English Renaissance n Caxton’s printing press n Henry VII – end of the Wars of the Roses – first of the Tudors n Great Vowel Shift

The Reformation n Luther’s 95 Theses n Henry VIII’s divorce n Calvin’s Institutes n first authorized English Bible published n Geneva Bible n King James Bible

England’s Rise n Edward VI n Mary I n Mary marries Philip II of Spain n Elizabeth I n Spanish Armada n Jamestown

The Renaissance and English n Latin and Greek borrowings n Increased literacy n Shakespeare n British colonialism