Extractions: Renaissance Exploration, Travel, and the World Outside Europe Texts and Contexts Barlowe, Voyage to Virginia Borde, First Book of...Knowledge Purchas His Pilgrams Spenser, Present State of Ireland Platter, Swiss Tourist in London Montaigne, Of Cannibals English men and women of the sixteenth century experienced an unprecedented increase in knowledge of the world beyond their island. The continued attempt, most often by ruthless military means, to subjugate nearby Ireland, inspired reflections, at once tactical and ethnographic, on the fiercely independent inhabitants of that island. (Edmund Spenser's View of the Present State of Ireland provides a glimpse of how harsh colonial policy could be.) Religious persecution at home compelled a substantial number of both Catholics and Protestants to live abroad; wealthy gentlemen (and, in at least a few cases, ladies) traveled in France and Italy to view the famous cultural monuments; merchants published accounts of distant lands like Turkey, Morocco, Egypt, and Russia; and military and trading ventures took English ships to still more distant shores. In 1496 a Venetian tradesman living in Bristol, John Cabot, was granted a license by Henry VII to sail on a voyage of exploration and with his son Sebastian discovered Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. Remarkable feats of seamanship and reconnaissance soon followed: on his ship the
The Matthew Of Bristol - Designing The Matthew and tested for long voyages of exploration, principally by a link between the Normanships and the elizabethans. the period equivalent of the modern space age. http://www.matthew.co.uk/ship_statistics/designing_matthew.html
Extractions: Ship Statistics Designing the Matthew Building the Matthew Statistics Voyages Sea Trials 1997 Voyage 1997 North America 1998 Return Voyage ... 2001 Channel Voyage The Future The Matthew Movements Crew Application History John Cabot The 1497 Voyage Age of Exploration Life on Board ... Navigation Education The Mathhew Puzzle Matthew Society Information Contacts by Colin Mudie All that is known about the ship is her tonnage, the approximate dates and times of her voyage, and that she had a crew of eighteen in addition to Cabot himself. We also know that she set out for a voyage to Japan and back which might last for a year. Tonnage, being a function of keel length and beam, can be fairly confidently turned into hull dimensions for a conventional vessel of the period. This works out to a keel length of approximately fifty feet, an overall hull length of about 64 feet and a beam of the order of 20 feet. These dimensions can be cross checked against the capacity required to carry the crew, stores and provisions for a voyage to Japan and to return with the anticipated cargo of treasures. We can also be fairly confident that she was square rigged in that such a rig can be handled easily by a crew of eighteen, whereas the alternative lateen rig would need the watch below on deck for most manoeuvres and become more difficult to manage if any crew were to be lost on such a long expedition. Square rig would also, we think, be the first choice for a voyage of this kind where the ship needs to be quickly and confidently manoeuvred when standing in to strange coasts.
Untitled Baroque The age of Ornamentation The Baroque (c. 16001750) was a period in which the great modern nations became distinct political powers vieing for economic control of American and African exploration. Don Quixote is an exploration of a self-appointed knight and his adventure. The elizabethans as well the French tried http://www.ou.edu/finearts/music/prideout/barart.htm
Extractions: Baroque: The Age of Ornamentation The Baroque (c. 1600-1750) was a period in which the great modern nations became distinct political powers vieing for economic control of American and African exploration. The term is derived from a Portuguese word meaning "misshapen" pearl. Much of modern science, art, and literature begins during this era. Catherine the Great Cromwell Puritan Rubens ... Counter-Reformation History: Wealth and Nations The sixteenth century exploration of the new world brought untold wealth to the European countries that sponsored expeditions. As a result, European countries and the monarchs that ruled them grew in wealth at a tremendous rate. Naturally reluctant to share that wealth, these same monarchs challenged the authority of the church in Rome that demanded taxes and fees. Instead, kings solidified their borders and became nations of specific identity. Of the many examples of changes that the seventeenth century brought, perhaps none is more dramatic than the rise of the nation/state. Under Louis XIV, the activities of the French court became the center of social and political life rather than the cathedrals. This was in direct opposition to the Medieval view or the relationship of the court to the papacy (a Renaissance view). French becomes the language of international relations, similar to the role that English serves today, and French was the preferred language for court and legal activities even in non- French capitols. Catherine the Great, for example, only spoke French at the Russian court.
Online NewsHour: Angels In America--October 1, 1997 posed for theology by modern space exploration What if there is life elsewhere living through an age no less astonishing than the one Hamlet new. The elizabethans sent galleons to http://www.pbs.org/newshour/essays/october97/rodriguez_10-1.html
Extractions: NEWSHOUR TRANSCRIPT Essayist Richard Rodriguez has some thoughts about Americans and angels. RICHARD RODRIGUEZ: In America today angels are the lead players in movies and on television. They are mascots for a professional baseball team. We like to think of Los Angeles as the City of Angels. And angels are in the employ of major New York publishing houses. Angels have become big business at your local bookstore, though angels must compete with books that tell you how to talk to your dog or whisper to your horse. Four hundred years ago, in a more golden age of literature, young Prince Hamlet sighed, "What a piece of work is man, how like an angel. Paragon of animals." It was a familiar conceit of the times, the notion that humans are suspended between the realm of animals and the realm of angels. Isnt it curious that for all of our differences from the world that Hamlet knew we would share his preoccupation with the human relationship to the animal and to the angel? Angels appear in Judaism, in Islam, in my own Christianity. From childhood I loved the way they floated at the edges of Renaissance paintingsloved the exalted military ranks of angels, the seraphim, the cherubim. The most interesting thing about angels is the way their existence implied that humans are not the only creatures in Gods creation. To that extent agents anticipate the question posed for theology by modern space exploration: What if there is life elsewhere in creation? There are traditions about the fall of disobedient angels and the fidelity of the good.
Merrie England 15941621) was an age of optimism and prosperity, full of dreams of James I encouraged learning, exploration, and trade. Reprisal entering elderhood. elizabethans entering midlife http://www.fourthturning.com/html/merrie_england.html
Extractions: Merrie England First Turning, 1594-1621 ) was an age of optimism and prosperity, full of dreams of empire yet tempered by a wariness of enemies abroad. For the arts, this was the true English Renaissanceand for literature, the glorious Age of Shakespeare. After succeeding Elizabeth in 1601, James I encouraged learning, exploration, and trade. His elaborately polite relations with the Commons began to wear thin late in the second decade of his reign. Reprisal entering elderhood Elizabethans entering midlife Parliamentarians entering young adulthood Puritans entering childhood Quicktakes offers a brief overview of topics referred to throughout the site. Please use your browsers back button to return to your previous location.
The Age Of Discovery"The Age Of Discovery" By Wilcomb E. Washburn In American Hi Examples of Embroidery work by Mayka Torreadrado, member of The New elizabethans Embroidery Group founded by Leon Conrad, 1988. of The New elizabethans are dedicated to the following Use of Traditional Techniques. exploration of Innovative ideas Suitable for Children (age 5 and up) and Adults. http://www.millersv.edu/~columbus/data/art/WASHBR05.ART
Extractions: Explorations: Renaissance Exploration and Travel Renaissance Exploration Texts and Contexts Barlowe, Voyage to Virginia Borde, First Book of...Knowledge Purchas His Pilgrams Spenser, Present State of Ireland Platter, Swiss Tourist in London Montaigne, Of Cannibals The overview to this topic discusses the ways in which Elizabethans used encounters with other cultures as a means of defining themselves . Often, the resulting definitions were unstable at best. Explore this idea more fully by going to Web resources that focus on sixteenth-century exploration. You might begin with the excellent online exhibition Cultural Readings: Colonization and Print in the Americas (University of Pennsylvania Library). As is clear in A View of the Present State of Ireland , Spenser was deeply troubled that the "Old English," descended from the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman conquerers of England, seemed closer to the Irish than to the Elizabethan English in their customs, language, and religion. Read the excerpt in Norton Topics Online and then compare it to Book 2, Canto 12 of Spenser's The Faerie Queene (NAEL 1.773-83). What images appear in both texts? Does Spenser's account of the "degeneration" of the Old English shed light on this canto? If so, what does Guyon's behavior in the Bower of Bliss imply for Ireland?
Gc: Beacon Pages be seen as being identified with both versions of this 'age of exploration' thoseof his incredulity (which would be shared by most elizabethans) that this http://www.greenhead.ac.uk/beacon/english/othello_four_docs.htm
Extractions: OTHELLO Four documents: Venice 'Othello', Elizabethan England and the Question of Race Tragedy - a brief introduction Othello as tragic hero Venice the famous and renowned city of the Venetians, which, although it is completely set in the sea, yet by the name of its beauty and the merit of its elegance it could be set between the star Arcturus and the shining Pleiades In honour of [St Mark] ....is a most sumptuous church, built incomparably of marble and other valuable stones, and excellently adorned and worked with Bible stories in mosaic Opposite it is that public square which all things considered has no equal anywhere. To this church is joined almost continuously that famous palace of the Duke of Venice, in which are fed at all times live lions for the glory of the state and the magnificence of its citizens. And opposite this palace near the harbour are two round marble columns, large and high, on the top of one of which, for their
Stefan's Florilegium the fifteenth century with a new age of exploration of this rediscovery concurrentwith the exploration of the with a red flush, was well known to elizabethans. http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-FRUITS/Period-Fruit-art.html
Extractions: This document is also available in: text or RTF formats. Period-Fruit-art - 1/13/02 "Fruit of Period Times" by Baron Akim Yaroslavich. NOTE: See also the files: Pattrn-gardns-art, fruits-msg, fruit-apples-msg, fruit-pies-msg, berries-msg, fruit-citrus-msg, marmalades-msg, fruit-melons-msg. NOTICE - This file is a collection of various messages having a common theme that I have collected from my reading of the various computer networks. Some messages date back to 1989, some may be as recent as yesterday. This file is part of a collection of files called Stefan's Florilegium. These files are available on the Internet at: http://www.florilegium.org I have done a limited amount of editing. Messages having to do with seperate topics were sometimes split into different files and sometimes extraneous information was removed. For instance, the message IDs were removed to save space and remove clutter. The comments made in these messages are not necessarily my viewpoints. I make no claims as to the accuracy of the information given by the individual authors. Thank you
BBC - Gardening TV Programmes - Hidden Gardens: Historical Style Guide It was an age of exploration and therefore many new plants were introduced PlantingThe elizabethans incorporated plants and fruit trees in their gardens. http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/tv_radio/programmes/hidden_gardens/style_guide/ja
Stefan's Florilegium Kids During the age of exploration 08239-5257-6 Black Death; The Crusades, Early Middle ages, elizabethans, The. Inquisition, late Middle ages, Wars of the Roses. http://www.florilegium.org/files/CHILDREN/child-books-msg.html
Late For The Sky: The Mentality Of The Space Age consideration of the problems of space exploration could most in a certain kind ofSpace age mind dynasty Chinese, or Native Americans, or elizabethans who have http://www.mtsu.edu/~dlavery/LFS/infinitepresumption.htm
Extractions: Infinite Presumption Something in us wants to get back every memory, every thing we have lost, every thing that was put together ever and once to make us. It is a sickness, but it is a wonder and a gift too. And though nothing in this century has worked out, we still expect to survive intact and to deliver the torch to those who will revive us in some other place in some other way. That is the garden of childhood we come from and return to beyond the stars, and beyond the figments and mirages of space and time. Richard Grossinger, The Night Sky Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the founding father of the Russian space program, Robert H. Goddard, the American rocket pioneer, and Hermann J. Oberth, the early German theorist of space travel, all were greatly influenced in their youthas they proudly admitted by the science fictions of Jules Verne. The French novelist's fantastic tales engendered in all three of these early visionaries the dreamfundamental to the early Space Ageof literally traveling from here to the moon. The memes of Jules Verne, we might say, were very infectious. The dreams of today's science fiction writers are, of course, far more complex, fantastic, cosmic, and ambitiousfar more new wavethan Verne's simple, nineteenth-century faith could have imagined, and the memes that these dreams spin off are more radical. So too, as we might expect, are our attendant Space Age prophecies; we envision much more than flying to the moon: to hear us talk, we are hatching extravagant schemes not only of exploration and colonization but of supremacy. Whether or not any actual influenceany implanting of memescan be shown of the former on the latter, the respective probes of science fiction and science fact remain in synchronous orbit, both inspired by what J. G. Ballard has described as the need to ceaselessly invent the "infinite alternatives to reality which nature itself has proved incapable of inventing" ("Cataclysms" 130).
Early American Lit\explore Into the Wilderness Dream exploration Narratives of the American West, 1500 The Mythof The Golden age in the Renaissance Rowse, AL The elizabethans and America http://www.lehigh.edu/~ejg1/ejgbib/explore.html
Extractions: Alexander, Michael, ed. Discovering the New World, based on the works of Theodore de Bry. (not at Lehigh) Arciniegas, German. America in Europe: A History of the New World in Reverse . San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986. Axtell, James. The Invasion Within: The Contest of Cultures in Colonial North America. New York: Oxford UP, 1985. Barclay, Donald A., James H. Maguire, and Peter Wild, eds. Into the Wilderness Dream: Exploration Narratives of the American West, 1500-1805. Salt Lake City: U of Utah P, 1994. Baritz, Loren. "The Idea of the West." American Historical Review Brandon, William. New Worlds for Old: Reports from the New World and Their Effect on the Development of Social Thought in Europe, 1500-1800. Athens: Ohio UP, 1986. Campbell, Mary B. The Witness and The Other World: Exotic European Travel Writing, 1400-1600. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1988. Cheyfitz, Eric.
Definitions/Context Of 19th C Theatre of Communion (Greeks, Romans, Medieval, elizabethans) Characterized byreligious The old age of Modern Drama. exploration of Spiritual world http://www.kzoo.edu/is/library/theatre/theatre_280/Definitions_Context_19thC.htm
Extractions: Characterized by growing need to present the illusion of everyday reality on stage in all its details. Theatre becomes a true entrepreneurial, commercial venture. performed anytime, not just at Special times of year. Popular theatre of 19th century in Europe and America is the melodrama and the well-made play. In the gradual, over-arching path towards Illusionism, Western theatre generally moves from: - huge outdoor amphitheatres to smaller indoor theatres
Extractions: The difficulty of encapsulating David Beers Quinns contributions to the history of discovery and settlement has been amply demonstrated by three festshrifts* that only partially accomplished that goal. A better measure is the extent to which history has been altered by his research and publications during the past six decades. But Professor Quinns influence has not been limited to academe. He incorporated his documentary discoveries in books written for a wider lay readership. For example, he collaborated with others in the production of popular editions, such as W. P. Cumming and R. A. Skelton in The Discovery of North America (1971) and Cumming in The Exploration of North America (1974). He has ever been ready to insist upon accuracy and credibility in commemorations of historic events. He was a major participant in the Drake Quadricentennial in California and the Roanoke Quadricentennial in North Carolina, and for the latter, produced Set Fair for Roanoke, a distillation of four decades of intimacy with the Elizabethans.
Taipei Times - Archives from what in retrospect is grandly called Europe's age of exploration. His previousventures in this genre have included a look at the elizabethans in Virginia http://taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2003/02/09/193978
Extractions: The early voyages of the Europeans to the East were appallingly risky affairs. Navigation was still an uncertain business, the wooden ships were easily damaged by rocks or ice, food and drink were often inadequate, the vessels were subject to attack by locals eager for bounty, and there was little knowledge of how to protect crews from disease by a healthy diet, and no immunity to the tropical diseases encountered on land. Ghostly ships like those in Coleridge's Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner or Wagner's The Flying Dutchman were common, their crews dying and their progress in the hands of half-crazed maniacs desperate for rest. These were commercial enterprises set up in London, Lisbon or Amsterdam trying unknown routes to destinations often only learnt about through hearsay. Success was chancy at best, and the men who set sail not surprisingly a ragged bunch.
Cahiers 47 et The Alchemist (1610), la disparition de l'age d'or est 4.1.22) en fournit une perspective;l'exploration et l The elizabethans and the Turk at Constantinople http://alor.univ-montp3.fr/CERRA/cahiers.web/CE.CONTENTS/CE.ABSTRACTS/ce.abstrac
Extractions: Peter K. AYERS Staging Modernity: Chapman, Jonson, and the Decline from the Golden Age No. 47 (April, 1995), pp. 9-27 INDEX TERMS 1) Jonson, Ben 2) The Alchemist 3) Urban world 4) Authorship 5) George Chapman's comedies 6) Alchemy 7) Textual/historical analysis 8) Golden Age 9) Saturnalia The subject of the world's decline from the Golden Age to the present provides an interesting vehicle for exploring a number of plays of George Chapman and Ben Jonson. In All Fools Monsieur d'Olive The Widow's Tears (1605), and The Alchemist (1610), the passing of the Golden Age is represented as a form of distinctively urban saturnalia, a liberation from the weight of traditional moral, spiritual, social, political, and cultural values and restraint inherited from the past. Full weight is given to the squalor of the present, but equally to the paradoxical fashion in which it is precisely such squalor that permits the present to free itself from the past. In the plays of Chapman such iconoclasm is largely thematic; in The Alchemist it is more interestingly incorporated into the linguistic, theatrical, and textual structures of the play as well. Face's reference to Dol's 'modern happiness' (4.1.22) provides one focal point; the exploration of linguistic collapse, here associated with the Tower of Babel, another; the perverse vindication of alchemy on both a literal and metaphorical level, another; the involuntary complicity of the audience in the alchemical con-games of the rogues, and the theatrical con-games of the author, another; the manipulation of textual effects in Jonson's exploitation of the medium of print, yet another. The
CE Subject Index The elizabethans and the Turk at Constantinople 47 2942; and the Decline from theGolden age 47 9-27. King Ponthus see Prose. Kingship exploration of problem of k http://alor.univ-montp3.fr/CERRA/cahiers.web/CE.SUBJECT.INDEX/SubjIndex2HQ.html
