Spain in the Golden Age: extending approximately from the end of the reign of the Catholic kings to the death of Charles II. At this time Spain reached its maximum splendor political and territorial. The marriages with the Habsburgs and the Ottoman Empire, Portugal adds to the kingdoms of Aragon Casti and an immensity dismemberment empire was progressively from the last quarter of the sixteenth century. However in the seventeenth century Spain was still a great power. Spain was elvuelta in many wars that affected the cultural and economía.En especially literature as the most important period in the history of Spain. Reformation and Counter Reformation: Europe wakes up in a great interest in the reform of religious orders . One of the most influential author was the Dutchman Erasmus of Rotterdam whose main lines of thought, which coincided with other reformist currents, are a return to Christianity of the Gospels which led him to criticize the political and economic power of the church. The Catholic Church celebrates the Council of Trent to curb the various reforms and initiate their own Protestant religious reform. This will be the starting point of the counter. The Spanish in the golden age: During this period, Spanish (Castilian) was acquired, both in pronunciation and vocabulary, much of the features made Nebrija composed actuales.De in 1492 a Castilian grammar, assuming that Castilian had reached a degree of perfección.Pensaba that Castilian would disappear and that thanks to its grammar, future speakers of another universal language could rebuild. The Castilian then became the most important Romance languages and composed excellent dictionaries, such as the treasure of historical Spanish Sebastián de Covarrubias.

Renaissance Thought itself has two basic aspects: The flowering of humanism, which involves an assessment of the man above any other reality and adaptation of classical culture as a model. It is considered the Renaissance as a movement to become republics. This was necessary to have a background in rhetoric and knowledge that were present only in medieval society. The Renaissance ideal of the knight must meet a certain physical virtues, moral and intelectuales.Debe be agile and strong, skilled in weapons and cavalry. Must also be skilled dancer, musician and singer, good creator and literary critic, witty in conversation and good amador.En Spain, the Renaissance is later than in Italy, but strongly rooted from the work of the humanist and grammarian, Elio Antonio de Nebrija. As a movement of transition between the Renaissance and the Baroque manierismo.Esta current situation is a reaction to classicism, characterized by the rejection of rigid rules and the liberal use of forms. The Baroque covers topics like heartbreak or sueño.Otro life as a subject in the period was honor.En regard to religious and philosophical ideas, in Spain the Baroque was a period of conservatism and caution in freedom of expression, in the wake of council trento.El feature Baroque is the artifice, concealment of reality in order to admire, amaze and deceive.The discreet, Baltasar Gracian's the piece that best reflects what purported to be the model barroco.En literature, Renaissance and Baroque as opposed to the conception of the literary work and above all repect to language.