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Chapter 15 Vocab !

Key Terms & People

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" 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
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