33 2.14 Key Terms

• The Areopagus

• Allegory

• The Battle of Bosworth Field

• Blank Verse

• Catherine of Aragon

• counter-reformation

• Edward VI

• English Epic

• English Sonnets

• Elizabeth I

• Henry VII

• Henry VIII

• Iambic Pentameter

• King Arthur

• King’s Council, or Star Chamber

• London

• Mary I

• Mary, Queen of Scots

• New Men

• ottava rima

• pastoral eclogue

• Petrarch

• Plantagenets

• The Printing Press

• The Reformation

• recognisances

• Renaissance Humanism

• rondeau

• Rhyme Scheme

• English sonnet

• Sonnet Conventions

• Spenserian sonnet

• Spenserian stanza

• terza rima

• The Spanish Armada

• The Wars of the Roses

• Vernacular, or native English, Literature

• William Caxton