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English Renaissance - Coggle Diagram
English Renaissance
Culture
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Drama
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Mystery plays
performed annually in the streets by trade guilds | short plays that together narrate a biblical story
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Morality plays
centered on moral issues and choices | characters are man, vice and virtues
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Masques
performed at court by lords and ladies | very lavish | combined poetry music and elaborate scenes | revel when audience danced with actors | mostly adulatory of royal policy
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Science
theory of microcosm and macrocosm > humans are worlds in their own right, they reflect the universe
Medicine
Galenic theory of sex: one-sex model | women and men have the same bodies with genitals arranged differently (inside for women, outside for men) b/c women are colder and men run warm
humoralism: everything in the universe if made up of 4 elements: in the human body these are the 4 "humours" that need to be balanced in order for the body to be healthy; imbalance of the humours brings illness
basic hygiene unknown > high rate of mortality also due to plagues | death is an everyday reality and not something unmentionable
Alchemy combination of chemistry and magic | philosopher's stone only discoverable by the pure of heart > alchemist must become so wise that he's not interested in the resulting wealth
Society
highly hierarchical: monarch | aristocrats and clergy | citizens | "mob" (city) and "churls" (countryside)
social mobility possible through marriage, money (buying a coat of arms) or education
courtiers view citizens as vulgar; citizens view courtiers as spendthrifts | citizens associated to hard work and honesty, make wealth through trades (trade guilds; city councils), can be considered forerunners of middle class
Family
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husband as master/king | wife inferior to husband, must be silent, faithful and obedient | children are their parents' property and unquestioned obedience is expected
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