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renaissance vocabb
definitions for renaissance terms
Question | Answer |
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Renaissance | time period of learning and arts in Europe during 1300-1600 |
Humanism | focus on the potential of people and on the life here on earth rather then the afterlife in heaven |
Renaissance Man | person who is skilled in many areas |
Patron | person who supports the arts |
Realism | details in art like wrinkles, muscles |
Protestant | person/group who disagreed with the Catholic Church Reformation-time period when people left the Catholic Church and left to set up their own Christian Churches |
Vernacular | everyday language of the people e.g The Bible written in German instead of Latin |
indulgences | payment to Catholic Church for forgiveness of sins |
Heretic | person who disagrees with an accepted belief |
Excommunicated | kicked out of the Catholic Church |
Inquisition | time period when the Catholic Church looked for and punished people who disagreed with it |
Anti-Semitism | hatred of people of the jewish religion |