AGES ERA PERIOD
RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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abolitionists and enthusiasts for slavery
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round-earthers and flat-earthers
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the Welsh and the Scots
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champions of ancient and modern learning
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Detailed explanation-1: -It depicts a literal battle between books in the King’s Library (housed in St James’s Palace at the time of the writing), as ideas and authors struggle for supremacy. Because of the satire, “The Battle of the Books” has become a term for the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns.
Detailed explanation-2: -The 17th century was a period of unceasing disturbance and violent storms, no less in literature than in politics and society. The Renaissance had prepared a receptive environment essential to the dissemination of the ideas of the new science and philosophy.
Detailed explanation-3: -Answer: The Battle of the Books is a simple mock-heroic account of a battle among the books resting in the King’s Library at St. James’s Palace. The battle itself is a satirical allegory on an intellectual debate that had been ranging in England since 1692, sometimes called the Battle of the Ancients and the Moderns.
Detailed explanation-4: -Despite the best efforts of both sides, the battle of the books ended in a draw. The ancients had given some ground, it is true, particularly in the sciences and philosophy, but they had held fast to literature and the arts.