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Renaissance literature refers to European literature which was influenced by the intellectual and cultural tendencies associated with the Renaissance.The literature of the Renaissance was written within the general movement of the Renaissance, which arose in 14th-century Italy and continued until the mid-17th century in England while being diffused into the rest of the western world. [1]
The tomb of John I Albert, completed in 1505 by Francesco Fiorentino, is the first example of a Renaissance composition in the country. [134] [135] Many Italian artists subsequently came to Poland with Bona Sforza of Milan, when she married King Sigismund I in 1518. [136]
The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England during the late 15th, 16th and early 17th centuries. [1]
The Renaissance of the 12th century was a period of many changes at the outset of the High Middle Ages. It included social , political and economic transformations, and an intellectual revitalization of Western Europe with strong philosophical and scientific roots.
Jean-Jacques Ampère was the first writer to speak of a medieval renaissance. The term 'renaissance' was first used as a name for a period in medieval history in the 1830s, with the birth of medieval studies. It was coined by Jean-Jacques Ampère. Charles H. Haskins published The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century in 1927
The Northern Renaissance was the Renaissance that occurred in Europe north of the Alps.From the last years of the 15th century, its Renaissance spread around Europe. Called the Northern Renaissance because it occurred north of the Italian Renaissance, this period became the German, French, English, Low Countries and Polish Renaissances, and in turn created other national and localized ...
The American Renaissance period in American literature ran from about 1830 to around the Civil War. [1] A central term in American studies , the American Renaissance was for a while considered synonymous with American Romanticism [ 2 ] and was closely associated with Transcendentalism .
The form of writing now commonplace across the world—the novel—originated from the early modern period and grew in popularity in the next century. Before the modern novel became established as a form there first had to be a transitional stage when "novelty" began to appear in the style of the epic poem.