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 \n14th-Century Prose Foundations  \nJohn Trevisa  \n(1342-1402)Sir John MandevilleLaid groundwork for historicalAuthored a wildly popular,prose.Translated Higden'spseudonymous travel narrativeLatin Polychronicon intoblending real pilgrimage routesMiddle English.with fantastical folklore.Walter Hilton(1340-1396)Wrote The Scale of Perfection(ScalaPerfectionis),a foundational treatiseon contemplative spiritual life.!Exam Trap:Do not confuse Hilton with Julian of Norwich(Revelations of Divine Love)or Bernard of Clairvaux.Magic Memory:Trevisa's History,Mandeville's Mystery,Hilton's History of the Soul.  \nSir Thomas MoreUtopia(1516)  \nWritten in Latin at Louvain.Translated to English by Ralph Robinson(1551).  \n\n| Book I:  \u003Cbr>Critique of Reality   | Book II:  \u003Cbr>The Imagined Ideal   |\n| --- | --- |\n| ·Sharp critique of Tudor  \u003Cbr>injustice,theft laws,and the  \u003Cbr>enclosure of common lands  \u003Cbr>where \"sheep devour men.\"   | ·Narrated by Raphael Hythloday.  \u003Cbr>·Describes a rational,egalitarian  \u003Cbr>island with communal property  \u003Cbr>and religious tolerance.   |\n\nEtymology:Greek “ou”(not)+\"topos”(place)=NO PLACE.  \nThe commonwealth exists as animaginative ideal,not a physical reality.  \nMagic Memory:Utopia:Where sheep eat menand Hythloday finds \"No Place\".  \nThomas Nashe &Early Psychology  \n# The Terrors of the Night(1594)\n\nThe  \nThe MedicalRealityPrevailing belief inNight-terrors arenocturnal spirits,Universitypurely psychologicalwitches,and devilsWit Satiredelusions arising fromhaunting the night.physical melancholy,bodily humors,and atroubled brain.Nashe's contribution was actively replacing supernaturalfear with an early framework of medical rationality.Magic Memory:Nashe trashed the ghosts;it's just melancholy in your brain!  \nSuperstition  \n# Richard Hooker(1554-1600)\n\nOf the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie(1594-1597):The definitive intellectual defense of the Churchof England against Puritan attacks.Scripture  \nHooker argued thatdivine law operatesrationality.Civil lawand human reasonare as vital as literalscriptural mandates.ChurchHumanTraditionReason  \nMagic Memory:Hooker hooked the Middle Way:Bible,Tradition,and Brains in balance.  \nSir Philip Sidney &Poetry  \nThe quintessential Renaissance Man defends poetryin An Apologie for Poetry(c.1580),refuting StephenGosson's attack that poets are \"fathers of lies”.PoetryA\"SpeakingPhilosophyPicture\"that  \ninstructs andTeaches onlydelights(docere et  \nHistoryby dry,abstractdelectare),movingTied strictly torules.readers tofactual records ofvirtuous action.what was.  \nPoetry is superior because it transcends facts andrules to actively inspire the human soul.Magic Memory:Sidney's speaking picturepaints over Gosson's caterpillar lies.  \nMontaigne &The 'Savage  \nMichel de Montaigne:Father of the modern essay.Landmark text:Of Cannibals (1580,trans.1603).The Inversion of CivilizationNative BraziliansEuropean Colonizers  \n·Live i","cbCairhM3FJPiRXu","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCairhM3FJPiRXu","pdf",16709756,113,"English","# The Intellectual Awakening\n## Shift in Thought\n## The Core of Humanism\n## 14th-Century Prose Foundations\n## Thomas More and Utopia\n## Thomas Nashe & Early Psychology\n## Richard Hooker\n## Sir Philip Sidney & Poetry\n## Montaigne & The 'Savage\n# Francis Bacon's Style\n# Mastering “Of Studies”","[{\"question\":\"What major intellectual shift does the module describe at the start of Renaissance prose?\",\"answer\":\"It describes moving from rigid medieval scholasticism toward Renaissance humanism, where rational inquiry and individual potential take center stage.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the module explain the purpose of humanism and classical revival?\",\"answer\":\"It links classical rebirth and philological rigor to promoting civic virtue and challenging rigid medieval glosses by reading texts in their original languages.\"},{\"question\":\"Which writers and works are highlighted, and what different approaches to prose do they represent?\",\"answer\":\"The module highlights Trevisa, Mandeville, Hilton, More’s Utopia, Nashe’s medical rationality about night terrors, Hooker’s defense of Church of England via rationality, Sidney’s apologie for poetry, Montaigne’s essay inversion in Of Cannibals, and Bacon’s objective aphoristic style.\"}]","The Intellectual Awakening - Module 1: Renaissance & Early Prose | PDF",1790461338,174]