The
English Renaissance was a
cultural and
artistic movement in England dating from the late 15th to the early 17th century. It is associated with the pan-European
Renaissance that is usually regarded as beginning in Italy in the late 14th century. Like most of northern Europe, England saw little of these developments until more than a century later. The beginning of the English Renaissance is often taken, as a convenience, to be 1485, when the
Battle of Bosworth ended the
Wars of the Roses and inaugurated the
Tudor Dynasty. Renaissance style and ideas, however, were slow to penetrate England, and the
Elizabethan era in the second half of the 16th century is usually regarded as the height of the English Renaissance.