Early Tudor period (1485 – 1558) (2h 2min, sep 30, 1485 y – 11h 26min, jul 17, 1558 y)
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King Henry VIII
One of the most famous kings in English history.
- Initiated religious restricting (reformation)
- Cut all ties to the Church of Rome.
- Established the Church of England and made himself the supreme head of the church.
- Turbulent time in England
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Was married to women and had dothers.
Until the age of Chaucer, at the close of the fourteenth century, England had produced nothing which could enable her to rank among the literary peoples. Before the accession of Henry VII Wiclif's Bible, Langland's Piers Plowman, the works of Chaucer himself, and the Morte d'Arthur of Mallory, were the only works in the English tongue which could in any sense be held to rank as classics. In the reigns of Edward IV and of Henry VII the intellectual movement was at last beginning to take hold of the English.
Education and liberal studies received a strong stimulus, but still an English literature was unborn. Sir Thomas More's native humour combined with his Platonism to produce the Utopia before Martin Luther had flung down his challenge to the papacy; but the Utopia was written in Latin, not in English. Literary energy was almost entirely absorbed in pamphleteering and theological controversy, and of poetry there was none in England until the latter years of Henry VIII; unless we dignify by the name of poetry the satires of John Skelton, whose doggerel rhymes have at least immortalised his name.
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