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Literature in English Society before 1660: Volume One, The Middle Ages. Seoul: Sogang University Press, 1997; Literature in English Society: Part Two, The Renaissance 1485 - 1660. Seoul: Sogang University Press, 1998; Textual Criticism of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Brother Anthony and Lee Dong-Chun. Seoul: Seoul National University Press, 2002.
The 16th century in France was a remarkable period of literary creation (the language of this period is called Middle French).The use of the printing press (aiding the diffusion of works by ancient Latin and Greek authors; the printing press was introduced in 1470 in Paris, and in 1473 in Lyon), the development of Renaissance humanism and Neoplatonism, and the discovery (through the wars in ...
France on the eve of the modern era (1477). The red line denotes the boundary of the French kingdom, while the light blue the royal domain. In the mid 15th century, France was significantly smaller than it is today, [a] and numerous border provinces (such as Roussillon, Cerdagne, Calais, Béarn, Navarre, County of Foix, Flanders, Artois, Lorraine, Alsace, Trois-Évêchés, Franche-Comté ...
Tudor and Stuart Britain: 1485–1714 (3rd ed. 2004), 576 pp excerpt; Perry, Curtis. The Making of Jacobean Culture: James I and the Renegotiation of Elizabethan Literary Practice (Cambridge UP, 1997). Stilma, Astrid. A King Translated: The Writings of King James VI & I and their Interpretation in the Low Countries, 1593–1603 (Routledge, 2016).
Elton, G.R. Modern Historians on British History 1485–1945: A Critical Bibliography 1945–1969 (1969), annotated guide to history books on every major topic, plus book reviews and major scholarly articles; pp 26–50, 163–97. online; Fritze, Ronald H., ed. Historical Dictionary of Tudor England, 1485–1603 (Greenwood, 1991) 595pp.
In science, the Royal Society was formed in 1660; it sponsored and legitimised a renaissance of major discoveries, led most notably by Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke. [104] New scientific discoveries were made during this period, such as the laws of gravity and motion , Boyle's law and microscopy among many others.
The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England during the late 15th, 16th and early 17th centuries. [1]
Britain, Denmark-Norway and the House of Stuart, 1603–1660: A Diplomatic and Military Analysis (Tuckwell Press Ltd, 2000). Ward A.W., ed. The Cambridge History of British Foreign Policy 1783–1919 Vol I 1789–1815 (1922) v1 online; Wernham, R.B. Before the Armada: the Growth of English Foreign Policy, 1485–1588 (1966)