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chapter 15
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Renaissance | Rebirth |
| Humanism | An intellectual movement during the Renaissance that focused on the study or worldly subjects, such as poetry & philosophy, & on human potential & achievements. |
| Secular | Having to do with worldly, is opposed to religious matters |
| Baldassare Castiglione | Italian diplomat & writer |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | Italian political philosopher & statesman |
| Lorenzo de Medici | Florentine ruler |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Italian painter |
| Michelangelo Buonarroti | Italian Renaissance sculptor |
| Raphel | Italian Renaissance painter |
| Johannes Gutenberg | German inventor & painter |
| Desiserius Erasmus | Dutch priest & humanist |
| Sir Thomas More | English statesman & author |
| William Shakespeare | English dramatist & poet |
| Christine de Pisan | French poet & author |
| Albrecht Durer | German painter, engraver, and theoretician |
| Jan van Eyck | Flemish painter |
| Protestant Reformation | A religious movement in the 1600's that split the Christian church in western Europe & led to the establishment of a number of new churches |
| Indulgences | Pardons used by the pope of the Roman Catholic Church that could reduce a soul's time in purgatory. |
| Martin Luther | German monk whose protests against the Catholic Church in 1517 |
| Theocracy | A government ruled by individuals leaders who claim God's authority |
| John Calvin | French Protestant theologian of the Reformation |
| Predestination | The belief that at the beginning of time God decided who would gain salvation |
| Henry VIII | King of England from 1509 to 1547 |
| Annulled | Declared invalid based on church laws |
| Elizabeth I | Queen of England from 1558 to 1603 |
| Counter-Reformation | The Catholics Churches series of reforms in response to the spread of Protestantism in the mid-1500s to the early 1600s |
| Jesuits | Members of a Catholic religious order, the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius Loyola |
| Ignatius of Loyola | Spanish churchman & founder of the Jesuits |
| Council of Trent | A meeting of church leaders in the 1500s whose purpose was to clearly define the Catholic doctrines for the Catholic Reformation |
| Charles Borromeo | Archbishop for Milan from 1560 to 1584 |
| Francis of Sales | French Roman Catholic leader & preacher |
| Teresa of Avila | Spanish Carmelite nun & one of the principal saints of the Roman Catholic Church |
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