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Chapter 15 Vocab
Key Terms and People
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Rebirth; a movement that centered on the revival of interest in the classical learning of Greece and Rome. | Renaissance |
| An intellectual movement during the renaissance that focused on the study of worldly subjects | Humanism |
| Having to do with worldly, as opposed to religious matters | Secular |
| Italian diplomat and writer; he wrote The Courtier | Baldassare Castiglione |
| Italian political philosopher and statesman; he wrote the prince | Niccolo Machiavelli |
| Florentine ruler; supported some of the most talented renaissance artists | Lorenzo de Medici |
| Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, and scientist; painted The Mona Lisa | Leonardo da Vinci |
| Italian renaissance sculptor, architect, painter, and poet; he sculpted the Pieta and the David, and he painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel | Michelangelo Buonarroti |
| Italian renaissance painter, he painted Frescos and The School of Athens | Raphael |
| German inventor and printer; he invented moveable type | Johannes Gutenberg |
| Dutch priest and humanist; he wrote on the need for a pure and simple Christian life | Desiderius Erasmus |
| English statesman and author; he wrote Utopia | Sir Thomas More |
| English dramatist and poet; he wrote Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, an A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare |
| Christine de Pisan | |
| German painter, engraver, and theoretician; he combined Italian renaissance techniques with northern renaissance techniques | Albrecht Durer |
| Flemish painter; his paintings focused on landscapes and domestic life | 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 | Indulgences |
| German monk whose protests against the catholic church in 1517 led to the movement known as the reformation | Martin Luther |
| A government ruled by religious leaders who claim God's authority | Theocracy |
| French protestant theologian of the reformation; he founded Calvinism | John Calvin |
| The belief that at the beginning of time God decided who would gain salvation | Predestination |
| King of England from 1509 to 1547; Henry established the Church of England in 1532 | Henry VIII |
| Declared invalid based on Church laws | Annulled |
| Queen of England from 1558 to 1603; skillful politician and diplomat, she reasserted Protestant supremacy in England | Elizabeth I |
| 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 of Loyola in 1534 | Jesuits |
| Spanish Churchman and founder of the Jesuits; proved an effective force for reviving Catholicism during the Catholic reformation | 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 |
| Archbishop of Milan from 1560 to 1584; he tried to implement the reforms ordered by the Council of Trent | Charles Borromeo |
| French Roman Catholic leader and preacher; he worked to win back the district of Savoy , in France,from Calvinism | Francis of Sales |
| Spanish Carmelite nun and one of the principal saints of the Roman Catholic Church;She reformed the Carmelite order | Teresa of Avila |