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Chapter 15 Vocab !
Key Terms & People
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| " rebirth", following the Middle Ages 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, such as poetry and philosophy, and on human potential and achievements. | Humanism |
| having to do with worldly, as opposed to religious , matters. | Secular |
| A Humanist, the Italian Diplomat who wrote a book called The Courtier. | Baldassare Castiglione |
| An Italian, of Florence, who was writing another influential book. | Niccolo Machiavelli |
| An well-educated poet, supported some of the most talented artists of the day. | Lerenzo De Medici |
| An highly talented painter; but he was also a writer, an inventor, an architect, and engineer, a mathematician, a musician, and a philosopher. | Leonardo Da Vinci |
| At the age of 24 he won fame with his Pieta', a sculpture of Mary, the mother of Jesus, holding her son after his death. | Michelangelo Buonarroti |
| He was a renewed painter and an accomplished architect. His most famous work, The School of Athens, is a Fresco, a painting made on fresh, moist plaster. | Raphael |
| He was a German who, casted the letters of the alphabet onto metal plates and locked those plates into a wooden press ? | Johannes Gutenberg |
| He was a leading Christian Humanist? | Desiderius Erasmus |
| He was an Humanist and an English statesman? | Sir Thomas More |
| Many scholars believe that he was the greatest English Play writer? | William Shakespeare |
| He was an Italian born writer who wrote important works focusing on the role women played in society? | Christine De Pisan |
| He was an German artist who had visited Italy in the late 1400s ? | Albrecht Durer |
| He was an Flemish Painter who had perfected oil painting in the 1400s ? | Jan van Eyck |
| a religious movement in the 1500s 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 souls time in purgatory; from the 1100s to the 1500s, indulgences could be purchased, which led to corruption. | Indulgences |
| he had made public complaints about the church ? | Martin Luther |
| a government ruled by religious leaders who claim God's authority ? | Theocracy |
| he was the most important Protestant reformer ? | John Calvin |
| the belief that at the beginning of time God decided who would gain salvation ? | Predestination |
| he became the King of England in 1509 at the age of 17 ? | Henry VIII |
| declared invalid based on church laws ? | Annulled |
| she was a protestant at heart ? | Elizabeth I |
| the Catholics Church's series reforms in response to the spread of Protestantism in the mid 1500s to the early 1600s | Counter-Reformation |
| members of a Catholic religious order, the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534 ? | Jesuits |
| The Jesuit order was founded by this man in 1534, who was also a Basque nobleman and former soldier ? | Ignatius of Loyola |
| a meeting of church leaders in the 1500s whose purpose was to clearly define Catholic doctrines for the Catholic Reformation ? | Council of Trent |
| he was the bishop of Milan from 1560 to 1584 ? | Charles Borromeo |
| he worked to gain the district of Savoy, which had largely turned to Calvinism ? | Francis of Sales |
| the most famous female spiritual leader ? | Teresa of Avila |