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Chap 15 vocab
| 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 |
| Italian diplomat and writer; he wrote The Courtier, one of the most important books of the Renaissance, in which he delineates the rules and correct behaviors for a courtier to adopt in order to win favor from a ruler | Baldassare Castiglione |
| Italian political philosopher and statesman; he wrote The Prince, which advised rulers to seperate morals from politics. He insisted that a ruler do whatever is necessary to succeed and that the ends would justify the means | Niccolo Machiavelli |
| Floretine ruler; he supported some of the most talented renissance artist. He was known for his patronage and liberal mind | Lorenzo de Medici |
| Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, and scientist; his interests and talents spanned numerous disciplines. He painted the Mono Lisa | Leornardo da Vinci |
| Italian renassaince sculptor, architect, painter, and poet; he sculpted the Pieta and David, and he painted the cieling of the Sistine Chapel | Michelangelo |
| Italian Renissance painter; he painted frescos, his most famous being The School of Athens | Raphael |
| German inventor and printer; he invented movable type. His first printed publication was 1,282-page Bible | Johannes Gutenburg |
| Dutcht priest and humanist; he wrote on the need for a pure and simple Christian life. To his regret, his writing fanned the flames of discontent with the Roman Catholic Church | Desiderius Erasmus |
| English statesman and author; he wrote Utopia, which describes an ideal society | Sir Thomas More |
| Englishman dramatist an poet; he is considered one of the greatest dramatist of all time and wrote such works as Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and A Midsummer Nights Dream | William Shakespeare |
| French poet and author; her work The City of Women discusses the role of women in the society. She championed the causes of equality and education for women | Christine de Pisan |
| German painter, engraver, and theoretician; he combined Italian Renissance techniques of realism and perspective withe elements unique to the northern Renissance, such as the use of oils in his painting | Albrecht Durer |
| Flemish painter; his paintings focused on landscapes and domestic life and fused the everyday with the religous | Jan van Eyck |
| a religous movement in the 1500s that split the Christian church left in western Europe and led to the establishment of a number new churches | Protestant Reformation |
| pardons issued by the pope of Roman Catholic Church that could reduce a soul's time in purgatory; from the 1100s to the 1500s, indulgences could be purchased, which led to corruption | Indulgences |
| German monk that protests against the Catholic Church in 1517 (the | Martin Luther |
| a government ruled by religious leaders who claims Gods authority | Theocracy |
| French protestant theologian of the Reformation; he founded Calvinism, which was associated with the doctrine of predestination | John Calvin |
| the belief that at the beginning of time God decided who would gain salvation | Predestination |
| King of England from 1509 to 1547; his desire to annul his marriage led to a conflict with the pope, Englands break with the Roman Catholic church, and its embrace of Protestantism; Henry establish the Church of England in 1532 | Henry VIII |
| declared invalid based on church laws | Annulled |
| Queen of England from 1558 to 1603; a skillful politician and diplomat, she asserted Protestant supremacy in England | Elizabeth l |
| the Catholic Churchs series of reforms in response to the spread of Protestantism in the mid-1500s to the early 1600s | Counter-Reformation |
| members of the Catholic religous order, the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola in 1534 | Jesuits |
| Spanish churchman and founder of the Jesuits (1534); this order of Roman Catholic priests proved and effective force for reviving Catholicism during the Catholic reformation | Ignatius of Loyola |
| a meeting of the church leaders in the 1500s whose purpose was to clearly define the Catholic doctrines for the Catholic Reformation | Council of Trent |
| Archbishop of Milan from 1560 to 1584; he took steps 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 principle saints of the Roman Catholic Church; she reformed the Carmelite order. Her fervor for the Catholic Church proved inspiring for many people during the Reformation period. | Teresa of Avila |
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