Thursday, 23 February 2012

Marlowe's World: Renaissance and Humanism:

  • Critical moment between 1300 and 1600
  • Began in Italy – Middle Ages – and spread through Europe.
  •  Encompassed a “flowering” of Latin and learning based on classical sources with a gradual but widespread education reform.
  •  Renaissance bought “linear perspective” – they painted people smaller to look further away.
  • At the end of the era, techniques were developed dealing with light and shadow. 
  • Da Vinci – studied human anatomy and wrote 13,000 pages of notes in his lifetime.
  • Humanism was based upon the study of the Ancient Greek and Latin authors as models of eloquence and virtue. 
  • It also laid great value upon the development of the subjective reader – an educated person who could use their understanding of the classics to investigate all other areas of human knowledge, through experience. 
  • Dispute – was hugely important. 
  • It was the formal debate in which the speaker would be expected to defend or attack a give premise. 
  • Thomas Healy – “16th Century schools and universities were hardly arenas of intellectual freedom, Marlowe’s education would have done more to facilitate than oppose his opportunities to think against the received opinion.

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