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Chapter 15
Question | Answer |
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The revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries | Renaissance |
A Renaissance cultural movement that turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought | Humanism |
occurring or celebrated once in an age or century: the secular games of Rome | Secular |
A humanists, of the Italian diplomat | Baldassare Castiglione |
A political philosopher and statesman. | Niccolo' Machiavelli |
A well educated poet, supported some of the most talented artists of the day. | Lorenzo de Medici |
Highly talented painter; but he was also a writer, inventor, architect, engineer, mathematician, musician, and a philosopher | Leonardo de Vinci |
Sculptor | Michelangoelo Buonarroti |
Renowned painter and an accomplished architect | Raphael |
German, Who cast the letters of the alphabet onto metal plates and locked those plates into a wooden press | Johannes Gutenberg |
Leading Christian humanist | Desiderius Erasmus |
Humanist and English statesman | Sir Thomas More |
English playwright | William Shakespeare |
Wrote important works focusing on the role women played in society | Christine de Pisan |
German artist | Albrecht Durer |
Flemish painter | Jan van Eyck |
A religious movement in the 1500's that split the Christian church in western Europe and led to the establishment of a number of new churches | Protestant Reformation |
Pardons issued by the pope of the Roman Catholic Church that could reduce a soul's time in purgatory; from the 1100's to the 1500's | Indulgences |
Made his complaints about the church public | Martin Luther |
A government ruled by religious leaders who claim God's authority | Theocracy |
Most important Protestant reformer | John Calvin |
The belief that at the beginning of time God decided who would gain salvation | Predestination |
Became king of England at the age of 17 | Henry VIII |
Declared invalid based on church laws | Annulled |
Drafted a new Supremacy Act in 1559, splitting England once again from Rome | Elizabeth 1 |
The Catholic Church's series of reforms in response to the spread of Protestantism in the mid-1500's to the early 1600's | Counter- Reformation |
Members of a Catholic religious order, the society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534 | Jesuits |
A Basque nobleman and former soldier | Ignatius of Loyola |
A meeting of church leaders in the 1500's whose purpose was to clearly define Catholic doctrines for the Catholic Reformation | Council of Trent |
The archbishop of Milan from 1560 to 1584 | Charles Borromeo |
Worked to regain the district of Savoy | Francis of Sales |
Most famous female spiritual leader | Teresa of Avila |