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AP Euro Chapter13
words I have trouble with in chapter 13
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Florence | Major Artisitc center of italian renaissance |
| Rome | The head of the "High Renaissance" |
| The Courtier | Written by Castiglione, written to train, discipline, and fashion the young man into a gentleman |
| The Prince | By Niccolo Machiaveli, subject is politica lpower, how ruler should gain, maintain, and increase it. |
| movable-type/block printing | allowed the mass publishing of books and other literature |
| rape of women | not taken very seriously at all unless a working class man were to rape a noble woman, then he would recieve extreme punishment |
| sodomy | all sexual acts with a person of the same sex, and sexual acts against nature (any act that did not lead to conception) |
| sodomite | usually referred to males, women could not attain sexual pleasure without the assistance of a man |
| Office of the Night | a special magistracy set up by Florentine government in order to "root out... the abominable vice of sodomy." A board of professional men, all of whom were at least 45 years of age and were married was elected annually. |
| slave | literally "of slavic descent" |
| European view of Black people | Blackness (opposite of light) represented evil. Also symbolized emptiness of worldly goods, the humility of the monastic way of life. Used for display. |
| Christian humanists | interested in ethical developmet.Combine best points of classical and christian cultures and points of view. |
| Thomas More (englishman) | was trained as a lawyer, lived as a student in the London Charterhouse, a Carthusian monastery. Household served as model of warm christian family life and as a mecca for foreign and english humanists.Wrote 'Utopia". pun on the word utopia, good place. |
| Desiderius Erasmus | orphaned as smll boy, forced to live in a monastery, which he hated. "The education of a Christian Prince" and "The Praise of Folly" |
| Charles VII | helped France to reconstruct itself after the Hundred Years War |
| Burgundians and Armagnacs | Charles VII reconciled their 30-year civil war |
| gabelle | tax on salt |
| taille | land tax |
| Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges | created by Charles VII in 1438; asserted superiority of general council over papacy, giving french crown major control over appointment of bishops, deprived pope of ecclesiastical revenues :french crown> french church |
| royal council | center of royal authority |
| justices of the peace | unpaid local officials, relied on by Tudors |
| cortes | parliament |
| hermandades | brotherhoods |
| Jewish | scapegoat for all bad stuff happening in Europe |
| New Christians | conversos or marranos, converted Jewish |
| inquisition | any judicial inquiry conducted with ruthless severity |