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chapter 15

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Renaissance   a movement that centered on the revival of interest in the classical learing of greece and rome  
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Humanism   an intellectual movement during the renaissance that focuced on the study of worldly subject such as poetry and philiosophy, and human poten tial and achivement  
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Secular   having to do with worldly, as opposed to religious, matter.  
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Baldassare Castiglione   count of Casatico, was an Italian courtier, diplomat, soldier and a prominent Renaissance author.  
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Niccolo Machiavelli   was an Italian historian, politician, diplomat, philosopher, humanist, and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance.  
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Lorenzo de Medici   was an Italian statesman and de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance  
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Leonardo da Vinci   italin painter, sculptor architect, musican, egineer, and scientist, his interests and talent spanned numerous disciplines.  
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Michelangelo Buonarroti   commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art  
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Raphael   italin renaissance painter, he painted frescos, his most famous beging the school of athens.  
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Johannes Gutenberg   was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, and publisher who introduced printing to Europe.  
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Desiderius Erasmus   was a Dutch Renaissance humanist, Catholic priest, social critic, teacher, and theologian. Erasmus was a classical scholar who wrote in a pure Latin style.  
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Sir Thomas More   was an English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist  
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William Shakespeare   playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.  
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Christine de Pisan   was an Italian French late medieval author. She served as a court writer for several dukes and the French royal court during the reign of Charles VI  
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Albrecht Durer   was a German painter, engraver, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist from Nuremberg  
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Jan Van Eyck   was a Flemish painter active in Bruges and is generally considered one of the most significant Northern European painters of the 15th century.  
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protestant Reformation   a religious movement in the 1500s that split the christians church in western Eropupe and led to the establishment of a number of new chrouch  
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indulgences   pardons issued by the pope of the roman catholic church that could reduce a soul time in purgatory  
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Martin Luther   was a German monk, Catholic priest, professor of theology and seminal figure of a reform movement in 16th century Christianity, subsequently known as the Protestant Reformation.  
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theocracy   a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.  
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John Calvin   was an influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism.  
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Predestination   as a doctrine in Christian theology) the divine foreordaining of all that will happen  
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Henry VIII   was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was Lord, and later assumed the Kingship, of Ireland, and continued the nominal claim by the English monarchs to the Kingdom of France.  
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annulled   declared invalid based on church laws  
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Elizabeth I   was queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called "The Virgin Queen", "Gloriana" or "Good Queen Bess", Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty  
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Counter Reformation   the movement within the Roman Catholic Church that followed the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century. counterreformation.  
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Jesuits   a member of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic order of priests founded by St. Ignatius Loyola  
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Ignatius of Loyola   was a Spanish knight from a local Basque noble family, hermit, priest since 1537, and theologian, who founded the Society of Jesus and, on 19 April 1541, became its first Superior General.  
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Council of trent   aa meeting of chruch leaders in the 1500s whoses purpose was to clearly define xatholic  
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Charles Borromeo   was the cardinal archbishop of Milan from 1564 to 1584. Among the great reformers of the troubled sixteenth century, Borromeo, with St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Philip Neri, and others,  
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Francis of Sales   was a Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church  
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Teresa of Avila   was a prominent Spanish mystic, Roman Catholic saint, Carmelite nun, an author of the Counter  
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