originate from the oral tradition; they were passed down from one generation to the next by word of mouth‚ both to entertain and to teach life lessons. Author Steven Swann Jones traces the evolution of the fairy tale from Boccaccio’s highly-regarded Decameron‚ written in the 1300s‚ to Maurice Sendak’s 1963 illustrated children’s classic‚ Where the Wild Things Are. Despite their compilation and classification by writers such as the Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault‚ fairy tales have no definitive versions
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The Renaissance was the time when people had taken up and resumed civilization for they believed that after a long interruption‚ they had been awakened from the so called dark time‚ which refers to the Middle Ages. It was a new era in thought and feelings which had led to many developments and changes‚ particularly in arts. Renaissance had started in Italy which also had spread almost all over Europe. Since the renaissance in Italy was a bit different from the renaissance in North Europe‚ historians
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Arriving by ships carrying flea infested rats‚ the Black Death originated in the 1340s in China and spread west along European trade routes eventually arriving on the British Isles. Since the ships bringing goods and more resources to England‚ the Americas‚ and more places‚ were not clean and had unsuitable living conditions‚ disease broke out. (Unknown Where Did Black Death Start?) Anywhere the ship stopped left disease behind‚ and since it was fabricated by new types of bacterium and was isolated
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Luther Pope Clement VII refused to give Henry VIII an annulment with Catherine of Aragon‚ leading to the Anglican Church Dante Alighieri Italian poet wrote "Divine Comedy" exiled from Florence for political reasons Giovanni Boccaccio wrote "The Decameron" in Italian vernacular supporter of Petrarch Sandro Botticelli Florentine painter "Birth of Venus‚" "Primavera" Filippo Brunelleschi Florentine architect designed duomo of Florence cathedral‚ chapel of Pazzi family Michelangelo sculptor by
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Renaissance Rebirth‚ Reawakening‚ Intellectual Awareness‚ Resurgence‚ Cultural Awakening and Cultural Revivalism are different terms which are used for Renaissance in history. After the thirteenth century‚ under the changing conditions of the time‚ man tried to discover the man and the world. It was like awakening to the true realities about the nature and man. This awakening is referred to as Renaissance. It is a French word‚ which means to wake again from a sleep. Some authorities have called
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focused on religious topics only and wrote for the nobility and the clergy. Starting during the Renaissance‚ authors began to write about topics that the common person would both enjoy and understand. Authors such as Giovanni Boccaccio‚ who wrote "The Decameron‚" set the stage for literary realism with characters and settings that were easier for readers to understand and connect with . This style of writing is still popular in common society. One of the most important contributors to the Renaissance was
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source briefly mentions the bubonic plague during the section where Petranek speaks on how a new global epidemic may arise‚ which wasn’t helpful but sparked my idea to write my paper on this topic. "Social and Economic Effects of the Plague." Decameron Web. Brown University‚ n.d. Web. 02 Mar. 2017. This website provided information on how Europe was impacted socially and economically. This source gave vague information on the different ways Europe was affected‚ but would have been more helpful
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Many people consider Martin Luther’s ideas revolutionary‚ but they were really just the tipping point. Before Luther‚ many people and events attacked the Catholic Church and it’s credibility. The most influential of these people and events were John Wycliffe‚ Jan Hus‚ and the Black Death. John Wycliffe was the first major critic of the ideology of the Catholic Church. His ideas would later influence both Jan Hus and Martin Luther himself. Wycliffe attacked the church with three separate ideas and
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The Black Death was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history‚ it resulted in the deaths of about 75 to 200 million people in Europe in the years 1346–53. The cause of this sudden eruption of the plague is not exactly known. From the Gobi desert‚ it spread out in all directions. The plague then spread eastward to China. During the expansion of trade during the Early and High Middle ages‚ trade routes with China were strengthened and ventured greatly. European traders‚ particularly those
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Germany The Spanish king Ferdinand and his queen Isabella tried at first to protect the Jewish families from the inquisitions due to their economical contribution‚ considering they were the continents money leaders. However‚ that immunity could not maintain for long‚ as the church had swayed the commoners that the plague was because of their sins and that of the non-Catholics. Moreover‚ Jewish families were forced to confess their alleged involvement in the outbreak or face execution. To escape
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