Briefly state the main idea of the article The Catholic Church, expanded by the Franks, had a significant impact to Western civilization, by shaping religious warfare and guiding architecture, art, music, and education. Explain 3 important factors that the author uses to support the main idea One factor that the author, Marius Ostrowski, uses to explain the main idea was when Ostrowski talks about how the Franks and the Church both supported each other. When the leader, Clovis, originally adopted
as one of the best literature pieces, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales which is a popular story about a voyage that talks about people’s pilgrimages. These works of literature were copied and illustrated by hand through the monks. “Wandering scholars and poets traveling to the Crusades learned of new writing styles. Courtly Love spawned a new interest in romantic prose. Troubadours sang in medieval courtyards about epic battles involving Roland, Arthur, and Charlemagne. Literature exploded from the
The relations and differences between American and European Romantic Trends and its impact on Washington Irving Sevil Qurbanova Master Student Qafqaz University sevil.qurbanova@yahoo.com ABSTRACT It would be better to mention that while the first sparks of Romantic trend started to flash in the US literature there were sound reasons to make it burn lightly. And the best way was to refer to the European Romanticism which already proved itself, reached the culmination of development with the contributions
Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a gothic novel because it contains all the classic elements. The story takes place in a dark crumbling castle, the tone is mysterious, there is a villainous character, and the hero is battling against an inevitable fate. London is a perfect setting for Dracula because London contains castles, hidden streets, waterways, recurring rainy weather, European architecture, and mystique. The novel includes many terrifying scenes, such as when Dracula raises a sack with a deceased
Gothic genre in Tim Burton films Introduction Tim Burton has directed many well-known films. The majority of his films have a Gothic aspect such as Corpse Bride, Beetlejuice, and Frankenweenie and Sweeny Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. The gothic genre is a genre of fiction characterized by mystery and supernatural horror, often set in a dark castle or other medieval setting. Gothic fiction, which is largely dominated by the subgenre of gothic horror, is a genre or mode of literature that
Goth subculture emerged in the late 1970’s in Britain. Punk had generated an age of youth with its D.I.Y. manner and taste in music, fashion, safety pins and thrift shops. Punk had triggered a rise of new styles such as romantic and ‘hard-core’. During this subcultural revolution, a number of personalities and musical bands began to develop this idea of ‘Goth’. Goth subculture as a fashion can be described as the development out of punk and was inspired by the mood the music evokes. Goth punk, 'death
“German philosophers.” For example, the Johanisburg Palace. In Germany, “Gothic style blended with the Renaissance.” A family sponsored a Renaissance to be built.” This style was liked by many people and soon the Renaissance influenced Austria (Wikipedia, Renaissance Architecture). Polish royalty ordered architects to construct churches, and palaces. Gothic style was liked by several countries in Eastern Europe, but later the Gothic style was replaced by the Renaissance. In the 16th century, French were
after the Father of His Country, George Washington. He is known as the father of American Literature. He “legitimated the writer as writer, someone distinct from other occupations, and he vindicated the artwork as just that, a work of art and not a vehicle for moral or civic instruction” (Gilmore 661-662). He was the American writer who made authorship profitable. "If the American public wish to have literature of their own," he declared, "they must consent to pay for the support of authors" (669)
Connections of Poe’s Short Stories The tone of death and loneliness are a few of the settings incorporated into Edgar Allen Poe’s short stories. In the stories The “Tell-Tale Heart” and the “Masque of the Red Death” uses irony in two different ways in both of the tales. Edgar Allen Poe was able to bring the dark and mysterious stories into America, and the first to begin the era of goth stories. Edgar Allen Poe’s style of dark writings would seem to be a result of the tragedies and hardships he
According to Dr. Andreas Petzold, the term “‘Romanesque’,” meaning in the manner of the Romans, was first coined in the early 19th century. Today it is used to refer to the period of European art” (Antiquity 1). The church architecture is fundamental to this period; “the Romanesque and Gothic churches were built on the foundations of Carolingian architecture. Charlemagne's early Romanesque architectural achievements were continued by the Holy Roman Emperors Otto I-III, in a style known as Ottonian