HUMA 1170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium
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He was not of an age but for all time -ben jonson (1573-1637) He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. Shakespear is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in london and canada -voltaire (1694-1778) Magic or enchanted isle as an ancient topos. Copernicus" de revolutionibus is places on the index of forbidden books. Voyages of discovery; re-defining europe as the old world in contradistinction to the. Renaissance humanism; the paideia; man is the measure of all things ; early modern humanism; the rise of the vernaculars and photo-nations. The scientific revolution: evidence replaces auctoritas; the emphasis on reason and speculation; synthesis of classical antiquity with early modernity. Colonialism: the eurocentric gaze; commentary on current events pertaining to the. Other ; new modes of imperialism >> the invention of the other .
