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semester test vocab
semester test vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Renaissance | the period of time European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the Modern World |
| Michelangelo | Floretine sculpor,painter, and architect |
| Humanism | an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters |
| Petrara | an Italian poet famous for love lyrics (1304-1374) |
| Leonardo Da Vinci | Italin painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect |
| Machigulli | an Italian historian, politican, diplomat, philosopher, humanist and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance |
| Johannes Gutenberg | German inventor and printer created the invention of moveable type |
| Vernacular Languages | native language or native dialect of a specfic population |
| Erasmus | Dutch humanist who was the leading Renaissance scholar of the northern europe |
| Sir Thomas More | ENglish statesman who opposed Henry's VII divorce from Catherine of Aragonard |
| William Shakespeare | English poet and dramatist (1564-1616) |
| Protestant Reformation | Religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church which resulted in the creation of protestant churches |
| Indulgences | allowance or tolerance |
| Simony | the making of profit out of sacred things |
| Nepotism | practices among those with power or influence of favoring relatives or friends especialy by giving them jobs |
| Worldiness | quality or character of being intellucally sophisiticated and wordly through cultivation or experince or disillusionment |
| Martin Luther | German theologian who led the reformation |
| 95 thesis | written by Martin Luther in 1517, its the widely regarded as the intial catalyst for protestant reformation |
| Charles V | the ruler of the holy roman empire from 1519 |
| Diet of Worms | a meeting of the holy roman empire of Charles V at which Martin Luther was summoned to appear |
| John Calvin | instrumental of the protestant reformers |
| Predestinantion | the divine foreorganinzing of all that will happen, especially will regard to the salvation of some and not others |
| Henry VII of England | his divorce of Catherine of Argaon resulted in his break with Catholic Church in 1534 |
| Catherine of Aragon | the first queen consort of Henry VII of England |
| Defender of the Faith | a title conferrd on Henry VII by pope leo in 1521 later withdrawn but restored by parliament and used ever since by English soverigns |
| Anne Bolell | queen of england from (1533-1536) as the second wife of Henry VII of England |
| Bloody Mary | excuted of protestants caused her opponents to give her the sopriquet |
| Elizabeth I | queen regnat of engllish an ireland for 45 yrs and was the fifth and the last ruler of the Tudor Dynasty |
| Act of Supremacy | piece of legislation that granted king Henry VII of England royal supremacy |
| Mary "queen of scots" | executed on 1587 |
| Counter reformation | denotes the period of catholic revival from the pointificate of pope |
| Ignatius Loyola | a spanish knight from a local Basque noble family, emerged as a religious leader during the counter reformation |
| Nicolas Copernicus | as astronomer and the first to demonstrate the that earth was not the center of the universe |
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