Renaissance Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===England=== {{main|English Renaissance}} The [[Elizabethan era]] in the second half of the 16th century is usually regarded as the height of the English Renaissance. Many scholars see its beginnings in the early 16th century during the reign of [[Henry VIII]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Foundation |first=Poetry |date=16 January 2024 |title=The English Renaissance |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/collections/154826/an-introduction-to-the-english-renaissance |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=Poetry Foundation |language=en}}</ref> The English Renaissance is different from the [[Italian Renaissance]] in several ways. The dominant art forms of the English Renaissance were [[literature]] and [[music]], which had a rich flowering.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Best |first=Michael |title=Art in England: Life and Times - Internet Shakespeare Editions |url=https://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/SLT/literature/art/england.html |access-date=18 January 2024 |website=internetshakespeare.uvic.ca}}</ref> [[Visual arts]] in the English Renaissance were much less significant than in the Italian Renaissance. The English Renaissance period in art began far later than the Italian, which had moved into [[Mannerism]] by the 1530s.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Art in Renaissance England |url=https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/display/document/obo-9780195399301/obo-9780195399301-0512.xml |access-date=18 January 2024 |website=obo |language=en}}</ref> In literature the later part of the 16th century saw the flowering of [[Elizabethan literature]], with poetry heavily influenced by [[Italian Renaissance literature]] but [[Elizabethan theatre]] a distinctive native style. Writers include [[William Shakespeare]] (1564β1616), [[Christopher Marlowe]] (1564β1593), [[Edmund Spenser]] (1552β599), Sir [[Thomas More]] (1478β1535), and Sir [[Philip Sidney]] (1554β1586). [[English Renaissance music]] competed with that in Europe with composers such as [[Thomas Tallis]] (1505β1585), [[John Taverner]] (1490β1545), and [[William Byrd]] (1540β1623). [[Elizabethan architecture]] produced the large [[prodigy house]]s of courtiers, and in the next century [[Inigo Jones]] (1573β1652), who introduced Italianate architecture to England.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=A Brief History of Architecture in Britain |url=https://cdn.southampton.ac.uk/assets/imported/transforms/content-block/UsefulDownloads_Download/1358E11C695C4670BC764FA5CAB2EEFE/Architecture%20of%20London%20Preparatory%20Materials.pdf |journal=University of Southampton}}</ref> Elsewhere, Sir [[Francis Bacon]] (1561β1626) was the pioneer of modern scientific thought, and is commonly regarded as one of the founders of the [[Scientific Revolution]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Scientific Revolution |url=https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/The-Scientific-Revolution/ |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=Historic UK |language=en-GB}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |last=Klein |first=JΓΌrgen |title=Francis Bacon |date=2012 |url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2016/entries/francis-bacon/ |editor-last=Zalta |editor-first=Edward N. |access-date=17 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191022212025/https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2016/entries/francis-bacon/ |url-status=live |edition=Winter 2016 |publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University |archive-date=22 October 2019 |encyclopedia=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page