Self-study
P1
In Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, J. W. Binns asserts that the drama of Shakespeare, the verse of Marlowe, and the prose of Sidney—all of whom wrote in English—do not alone represent the high culture of Renaissance (roughly sixteenth- and seventeenth-century) England. ██████ ███ ████████ ██ ███████ █████ █████████ ██████ ████ ██████ ██ ██ ███ ████████ ████ ██ ██████████ ███ ███████ ██████████████ ███ █████ ██ ████ █████████ ███ ███████ ███████ ██ █████ █████ █████████ ██ ██████ █████ ███ ███████ ████████████ ██ ███ ████████████ ███
Binns' perspective ·
Latin was culturally important during English Renaissance
Problem ·
Specialists in Renaissance Latin neglect culturally important works
Theology, science, law, medicine
P2
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Expand problem ·
English intellectual historians neglect important influence of Latin
They only cover works written in English, and ignore influences of Latin on English intellectuals
Example of Latin influence ·
Late Renaissance humanism
English writers were influenced by humanist thinkers, who drew on ancient Latin texts
P3
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Summarize problem ·
Gap between specialists in Latin and specialists in English intellectual history
Implication of problem ·
Distorted understanding of Renaissance English history
Passage Style
Problem-analysis
Single position
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a
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We don’t know that important Continental works were “inaccessible to English readers.” During the Renaissance, English readers might have also known Latin. The problem described in the passage concerns modern historians, who aren’t trained in Latin. We also don’t know that Continental writers wrote in Latin more frequently than did English writers. We’re told that English intellectuals
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The author never suggests that Continental writers were more advanced than English writers, or that they are responsible for familiarizing English audiences with Latin. Continental writers did influence English writers, but this doesn’t imply that (B) describes.
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We don’t know that the concerns of English and Continental writers were “for the most part different.” The author actually suggests the concerns were similar, since
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e
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The author doesn’t suggest that intellectual ties have been “overemphasized.” Rather, they’ve been