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Renaissance and Refo
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Renaissance | A time of creativity and change in political, social, economic, and cultural areas. |
| Humanism | an intellectual movement at the heart of the Renaissance that focused on education and the classics. |
| Renaissance Man | Someone who is skilled in many areas |
| Patron | A person who provides financial support to for the arts |
| Realism | Nineteenth-century artistic movement whose aim was to represent the world as it is. |
| Protestant | People who broke away from the church because they thought that the church was greedy. |
| Reformation | An attempt to change, reform, and improve to make something better |
| Vernacular | everyday language of ordinary people |
| Indulgences | in the Roman Catholic Church, pardon for sins committed during a person’s lifetime |
| Heretic | a person whose religious beliefs are contrary to the official teachings of the church |
| Excommunicated | being exculded from the Roman Catholic Church as a penalty for refusing to obey Church law |
| Inquisition | a Church court set up to try people accused of heresy |
| Anti-Semitism | prejudice against Jews |