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Important People & Ideas of the Renaissance & Reformation Periods
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Michaelangelo | Painted Sistine Chapel & sculpted la Pieta & David |
| Erasmus | Most famous Christian humanist & wrote The Praise of Folly |
| The Praise of Folly | an Essay written in Latin in 1509 by Desiderius Erasmus |
| Shakespeare | Renaissance playwright and writer of sonnets |
| Renaissance Man | a scholar during the Renaissance who (because knowledge was limited) knew a lot about many topics |
| Johannes Gutenberg | German Printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press |
| Patron | a person who supports artists, especially financially |
| Machievelli | Author of "The Prince"; a book detailing the requirements of a successful ruler |
| Perspective | a point of view |
| Humanism | a philosophy in which interests and values of human beings are of primary importance |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Renaissance Painter who painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper |
| Turks | Muslims from Asia Minor who defeated Constantinople & renamed it Istanbul |
| Pope | Head of the Roman Catholic Church |
| Sir Thomas More | author of Utopia |
| Indulgences | A favor granted by the church to sinners in exchange for a difficult spiritual sacrifice; more commonly for payment of money |
| infallible | the Roman Catholic church taught that the Pope was "incapable of making a mistake or being wrong" |
| 95 Thesis | A list of abuses and crimes committed by the officials of the Roman Catholic Church posted on the castle church by Martin Luther |
| excommunicate | banished from the church; The Pope banished Martin Luther in 1520 |
| Heretic | Person who has betrayed the Church and its laws |
| Wittenburg | Town in German where Martin Luther studied, taught and preached |
| John Calvin | was anti-catholic; wanted to set up theocracy; taught predestination; expanded the protestant movement |
| Individualism | Pursuit of personal happiness and independence rather than the interests of the church |
| Religious Tolerance | accepting the differing religious views of other people |
| Henry VIII | broke from Rome & created his own church; took land & wealth away from Catholic Church of England; Divorced |
| Queen Elizabeth | Tolerant of dissenters, |
| Huegonots | French Protestants |
| Jesuits | Catholic order that was founded to spread Catholic doctrine all over the world |
| Cardinal Richelieu | changed the focus of the 30 Year War from religious to political conflict |
| Edict of Nantes | granted Huguenots freedom to worship by Catholic monarch but it was later revoked |
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