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Renaissance & Re
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| patron | a patrician in relation to a client. |
| humanism | an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. |
| Renaissance | “rebirth” or “reawakening.” The cultural rebirth that occurred in Europe from roughly the fourteenth through the middle of the seventeenth centuries, based on the rediscovery of the literature of Greece and Rome. |
| Northern Renaissance | The Northern Renaissance was the Renaissance that occurred in Europe north of the Alps. Before 1497, Italian Renaissance humanism had little influence outside Italy. From the late 15th century, its ideas spread around Europe. |
| Johannes Gutenberg | A German printer of the fifteenth century, who invented the printing press. |
| Protestant Reformation | The Protestant Reformation was the 16th-century religious, political, intellectual and cultural upheaval that splintered Catholic Europe, setting in place the structures and beliefs that would define the continent in the modern era. |
| indulgence | a grant by the Pope of remission of the temporal punishment in purgatory still due for sins after absolution. The unrestricted sale of indulgences by pardoners was a widespread abuse during the later Middle Ages. |
| 95 theses | Ninety-five Theses, propositions for debate concerned with the question of indulgences, written (in Latin) and possibly posted by Martin Luther on the door of the Schlosskirche (Castle Church), Wittenberg, on October 31, 1517. |
| Protestantism | the faith, practice, and church order of the Protestant churches. |
| predestination | the divine foreordaining of all that will happen, especially with regard to the salvation of some and not others. It has been particularly associated with the teachings of St. Augustine of Hippo and of Calvin. Origin |
| “the elect” | |
| Jesuits | a member of the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic order of priests founded by St. Ignatius Loyola, St. Francis Xavier, and others in 1534, to do missionary work. The order was zealous in opposing the Reformation |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | was an Italian diplomat, politician, historian, philosopher, humanist, and writer of the Renaissance period. He has often been called the father of modern political science. |
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Jongseo Lim
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