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Renaissance & Reform
vocab
Question | Answer |
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Renaissance | Rebirth in art, writing,architecture, learning,and culture |
Humanism | intellectual movement that focused on human potential and achievements |
Patrons | Those who financially supported the arts |
Perspective | Technique which shows three dimensions on a flat surface through use of a vanishing point |
Utopia | An ideal place as depicted in Thomas More’s Utopia |
Vernacular | Native Language |
Sonnet | 14 line poem |
Reformation | Religious movement lead by Martin Luther which led to the founding of Christian churches that did not accept the pope's authority |
Indulgence | A pardon which, when purchased, released a sinner from performing the penalty that a priest imposed for sins |
Heretic | one who dissents from an accepted belief or doctrine |
Clergy | Different ranks of Church leaders including priests, bishops, cardinals,and the Pope |
Lutherans | Followers of Martin Luther who separated from the Catholic Church |
Protestant | From the princes that protested the Catholic church. Applied to Christians who belonged to non-Catholic Churches |
Secular | Worldly |
Annul | To set aside a marriage as if it never took place |
Predestination | God knows from the beginning who will be saved (go to heaven). Salvation cannot be earned |
Anglican | Protestant church created by Queen Elizabeth I of England in 1559 |
Calvinism | Ideas of John Calvin whow rote that men and women are sinful by nature and that God chooses a very few people to save and uses predestination |
Theocracy | a government controlled byr eligious leaders |
Anabaptists | Protestant group who baptized only those who were old enough to decide to be Christian |
Presbyterians | Followers of John Knox who took Calvin’s ideas to Scotland; each community church was governed by a group of layman called presbyters |
Catholic Reformation | Following the Protestant Reformation, it was a movement within the Catholic Church tore form itself. Also known as the Counter Revolution |
Jesuits | Members ofthe Society of Jesus which was created by the pope in 1540 for the followers of Ignatius who sought to help bring people back to Catholicism during the Catholic Reformation |