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LITERARY PERIOD AND MOVEMENT
REFORMATION
• a religious movement of the 1500’s that led to
Protestantism.
• The movement began in 1517 when Martin
Luther, a German monk, protested against
certain practices of Roman Catholic Church
• About 40 years later, Protestantism was
established in Europe.
REFORMATION
Protestantism is a branch of Christianity,
which refers to the many religious groups that
separated from the Roman Catholic Church due
to differences in doctrine.
REFORMATION
Martin Luther , a teacher and monk , published
a document he called Disputation on the
Power of Indulgences, or 95 Theses.
‘THE FAERIE QUEENE’
 a moral allegory and shows the distinct impact of
the movement.
 which follows the adventures of a number of
medieval knights. The poem, written in a
deliberately archaic style, draws on history and
myth, particularly the legends of Arthur.
.
Each book follows the adventures of a knight who
represents a particular virtue (holiness, temperance,
chastity, friendship, justice and courtesy) and who has
that quality in him or herself tested by the plot.
REFORMATION
SOCIAL CAUSES
POLITICAL CAUSES
•
• Powerful monarchs challenged
the Church as the supreme
power of Europe.
• Many leaders viewed the Pope
as
a
foreign
ruler
and
challenged his authority.
The Renaissance values
of
humanism
and
secularism led people to
question
the
Catholic
Church.
• The printing press helped
to spread ideas critical of
the church.
REFORMATION
ECONOMICAL CAUSES
RELIGIOUS CAUSES
• European princes
and
leaders were jealous of the
Church’s wealth.
• Merchants
and
others
resented having to pay
taxes to the Church.
• Some church leaders had
become worldly and corrupt.
• Many people found Church
practices such as, the selling of
indulgences, unacceptable.
The rise of
MODERN
ENGLISH PROSE
 traces the legacy of prose
writing as an art form that
was
theorized
and
propagated in a manner
quite distinct from verse.
WILLIAM
SALESBURY
MOST IMPORTANT FIGURE OF THE
REFORMATION
The first Welsh printed book,
YN Y LHYVYR HWNN (1547; “IN
THIS BOOK”), consisted of extracts
from the Scriptures and the prayer book:
from this time modern Welsh prose began
to assume definite form.
WILLIAM SALESBURY was a Welsh lexicographer and translator
who is noted particularly for his Welsh-English dictionary and for
translating the New Testament of 1567 into Welsh.
In the same year was published the Welsh
Prayer Book, also translated mainly by Salesbury in
collaboration with Richard Davies, bishop of St.
David’s. The Welsh Bible translated by William
Morgan, bishop of St. Asaph, aided by Edmwnd
Prys, was published in 1588.
INFLUENCES OF LITERARY
PERIODS/MOVEMENTS
CLASSICAL PERIOD
MEDIEVAL PERIOD
Golden age for the
literature and arts.
Christianity strongly
influenced the subject
matter of literature.
RENAISSANCE
PERIOD
Brought so many
types of Literary
Composition:
Sonnets
Lyrical Poem
Non-fictional Critical
Prose
Drama
REFORMATION
PERIOD
The rise of Modern
English Prose.
Protestantism
influenced the
literature.
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