英国文学资料English literature of the renaissance.pptVIP

English Literature of the Renaissance The Historical Background: (Political, Economic, and Cultural) The Renaissance was an ideological and cultural revolution that swept over all western Europe. Renaissance started in Italy in 14th century and came to a flowering in the 15th and the 16th when it began to spread to other countries, notably France, and then Germany, England, Spain and the Low Countries. This was an epoch of many radical changes in western Europe. Fedual nobility lost much of their power, with the centralization of political and military power that came with the establishment of