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Renaissance
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| A period of European history that began in Italy and spread to the rest of Europe | Italian Renaissance |
| Worldly | Secular |
| not steady; wavering | Instability |
| A famous painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, and mathematician in the Renaissance | Leonardo da Vinci |
| Took control of Florence in 1434 and ran the government from behind the scenes | Cosimo de Medici |
| The capital of Italy, situated in the west central part of the country, on the Tiber river about 16 miles inland | Rome |
| One of the most influential works on political power in the Western world. Concerns how to keep and acquire political power | Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince |
| Often called the father of Italian Renaissance humanism, did more than any other individual in the fourteenth century to foster the development of humanism | Petrarch |
| Known for, Divine Comedy, about the soul's journey to salvation, Italian author | Dante |
| Helped make vernacular literature more popular, English author, the Canterbury Tales, consists of a collection of stories told by a group of 29 pilgrims journeying to the tomb of Saint Tomas á Becket at Canterbury, England | Chaucer |
| A city in Kent, in Southeastern England | Canterbury |
| A painting done on fresh, wet plaster with water based paints | Fresco |
| Was Italy's best painters and was admired for his numerous madonas (paintings of the Virgin Mary), School of Athens | Raphael |
| An accomplished painter, sculptor, and architect, was another master of the High Renaissance, painted on the Sistine Chapel in Rome | Michelangelo |
| A Flemish painter who was among the first to use and perfect the technique of oil painting, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride | Jan van Eyck |
| A german artist who was greatly affected by the Italians, Adoration of the Magi | Albrecht Durer |
| Church reform leader Created 95 Theses created a new doctrine called lutherism | Martin Luther |
| Northern Renaissance Humanism major goal was to reform the catholic church | Christian humanism |
| release from all or part of the punishment for sin | Indulgence |
| A university in Germany where Martin Luther lectured on the Bible | Wittenberg |
| A list of a stunning attack on abuses in the sale of indulgences created by Martin Luther | 95 Theses |
| Made Martin Luther an outlaw within the empire | Edict of Worms |
| Was the first protestant religion, consists of Bible readings, preaching of the word of god and song, Luthers new doctrine | Lutheranism |
| An agreement that formally acce[ted the division of Christianity in Germany | Peace of Augsburg |
| Published the Institutes of the Christian Religion, created Calvinism | John Calvin |
| "Eternal decree" God had determined in advance who would be saved and who would be damned | Predestination |
| A city in southwestern Switzerland, where Calvin wanted to reform in 1536 | Geneva |
| Wanted to divorce his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, with whom he had a daughter, Mary, but no son, established the Church of England | King Henry VIII |
| declare invalid | Annul |
| A Spanish nobleman who founded the Society of Jesus, known as the Jesuits | Ignatius of Loyola |
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