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Renaissance
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Renaissance | Rebirth |
| Humanism | an intellectual movement at the heart of the Renaissance that focused on education and the classics |
| Renaissance Man | a man having varied interests and expertise in several areas |
| Patron | a person who provides financial support for the arts |
| Realism | nineteenth-century artistic movement whose aim was to represent the world as it is |
| Protestant | a Christian belonging to a sect descending from tose that seceded from the Church of Rome during the reformation |
| Reformation | movement leading to separation of the Protestant churches from the Roman Catholic Church |
| Vernacular | everyday language of ordinary people |
| Indulgances | in the Roman Catholic Church, pardon for sins comitted during a person's life |
| Heretic | one who publicly opposes the officially accepted dogma of the Roman Catholic Church |
| Excommunicated | exclusion from the Roman Catholic Church as a penaltyfor refusing to obey Church law |
| Inquisition | a Chruch court set up to try people accused of heresy |
| Anti-Semitism | prejudice against Jews |