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Renaissance Vocab
Renaissance Vocabulary- Global I
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Annul | cancel or invalidate (in the RCC applies to marriage) |
| Calvinism | Calvinists believe that salvation is gained through faith alone and the Bible is the source of religious truth. John Calvin believed in predestination or divine right. |
| Heliocentric | based on the belief that the sun is the center of the universe |
| Heresy | Religious belief that is contrary to the official teachings of the church |
| Humanism | Intellectual movement at the heart of the Italian Renaissance that focused on worldly subjects rather than on religious ones |
| Indulgence | In the Roman Catholic Church, pardon for sins committed during a person’s life |
| 95 Theses | List of 95 arguments against indulgences, posted by Martin Luther on the door of a church in Wittenberg, Germany in 1517 |
| Patron | Person who provides financial support for the arts |
| Predestination | Idea that God long ago determined who will gain salvation |
| Protestant Reformation | Period when Europeans broke away from the Roman Catholic Church and formed new Christian churches |
| Recant | Give up one’s views or beliefs |
| Renaissance | Period of great creativity and change in Europe from the 1300s through the 1600s; the word means “rebirth” |
| Scientific Method | Painstaking method used to confirm findings and to prove or disprove a hypothesis |
| Scientific Revolution | Period in the 1500s and 1600s in which scientific thinkers challenged traditional ideas and relied on observation and experimentation |
| Secular | Having to do with worldly, rather than religious matters |
| John Calvin | French Protestant reformer who preached predestination |
| Copernicus | Polish astronomer who proposed the sun-centered model of the universe |
| Leonardo da Vinci | Italian Renaissance painter and sculptor who created the Mona Lisa |
| Galileo | Italian Renaissance astronomer who supported the heliocentric theory |
| Martin Luther | German monk who began the Protestant Revolution with the 95 Theses |
| Michelangelo | Italian Renaissance sculptor, engineer, architect, poet, and painter of the Sistine Chapel |
| Sir Isaac Newton | English scientist who discovered gravity; worked with physics and astronomy |
| Shakespeare | English playwright and poet of numerous comedies, tragedies, and histories |
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