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Part 3 - The Seventeenth Century - The Age of Revolution (1603-1688): 3.13 Key Terms

Part 3 - The Seventeenth Century - The Age of Revolution (1603-1688)
3.13 Key Terms
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  1. 3.1 Learning Outcomes
  2. 3.2 Introduction
  3. 3.3 Recommended Reading
  4. 3.4 John Donne
  5. 3.5 Aemelia Lanyer
  6. 3.6 Ben Jonson
  7. 3.7 Robert Herrick
  8. 3.8 Andrew Marvell
  9. 3.9 Margaret Cavendish, The Duchess of New Castle
  10. 3.10 John Milton
  11. 3.11 John Dryden
  12. 3.12 Samuel Pepys
  13. 3.13 Key Terms

Part 3: The Seventeenth Century – The Age of the Revolution (1603-1688)

3.13 KEY TERMS

  • The Book of Common Prayer

  • Charles I

  • Charles II

  • Sir Christopher Wren

  • The Civil War

  • Dissenters

  • Divine right of kings

  • Epic convention

  • Epic similes

  • Frances Bacon

  • The Great Plague of London

  • The Great Fire of London

  • The Gunpowder Plot

  • Heroic couplet

  • Heroic drama

  • Sir Isaac Newton

  • James I

  • King James Bible

  • Leviathan

  • Metaphysical conceits

  • Metaphysical poetry

  • Oliver Cromwell

  • Parliament

  • Parliamentarians

  • Principia

  • The Restoration

  • Robert Hooke

  • The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge

  • Royalists

  • Scientific spirit

  • Social contract

  • Sons of Ben

  • St Paul’s Cathedral

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