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History Chapter 15
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Renaissance | "rebirth"; following the middle ages, a movement that centered on the revival of interest in the classical learning |
| Humanism | An intellectual movement during the renaissance that focused on the study of worldly |
| Secular | Having to do with worldly, as opposed to religious, matter |
| Baldassare Castiglione | Indian diplomat and writer; he wrote The Courtier, one of the most important books if the Ranaissance |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | Italian political philosopher and statesman; he wrote The Prince, witch advise rulers to separate moral |
| Lorenzo De Medici | Florentine ruler; he sported some of the most talented Renaissance artist |
| Leonardo Da Vinci | Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, and scientist |
| Michelangelo Buonarroti | Italian Renaissance Sculptor, painter, architect, and poet |
| Raphael | Italian Renaissance painter; he painted fresco, his most famous being THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS |
| Johannes Gutenberg | German inventor and printer; he invented movable type |
| Desiderius Erasmus | Dutch priest and humanist; he wrote on the need for pure and simple Christians life |
| Sir Thoman More | English statement and author; he wrote UTOPIA |
| William Shakespeare | English Dramatist and poet; he was consider one of the greatest dramatist of all time and wrote ROMEO AND JULIET |
| Christine De Pisan | French poet and author; her work THE CITY OF WOMEN discusses the role of women in society |
| Albrecht Durel | German painter, engraver, and theoretician; he combined Italian Renaissance |
| Jan Van Eyck | Flemish painter; his painting focused on landscape and domestic life and fused the every day with the religious |
| Protestant Reformation | A religious movement in the 1500s that split the christian church in western Europe |
| Indulgences | Pardons issue by popes of the Roman Catholic Church |
| Martin Luther | German monk who protest against the Catholic church |
| Theocracy | A government ruled by religious leaders who claimed gods athorithy |
| John Calvin | French protestant theologian of the reformation; he found Calvinism |
| Predestination | The believe that at the beginning of time god will decide who would gain salvation |
| Henry Vlll | King Of England from 1509 to 1547; his desire to annul his marriage lead to a conflict with the pope |
| Annulled | Declared invalid based on church laws |
| Elizabeth l | Queen of England from 1558 to 1603 ; a skillful politician and diplomat |
| Counter-Reformation | The catholic church service of reform in response to the spread |
| Jesuits | Member of catholic religious order |
| Ignatius Of Loyola | Spanish church and founder of Jesuit |
| Council Of Trent | A meting of church leaders in 1500s |
| Charles Borromeo | Archbishop of Milan from 1560 to 1584 |
| Francis Of Sales | French Rome catholic leader and preacher |
| Teresa Of Avila | Spanish carmelite nun and one of the principal saints of the Roman catholic church |