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Topic 10
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| purgatory | a place of punishment where souls pay for past sins |
| indulgence | a release from sin by the Catholic Church, reducing time in purgatory |
| thesis | a position or idea a person puts forward and is willing to prove through argument |
| recant | to withdraw a statement publicly |
| heretic | a person who opposes or does not follow established religious teachings |
| predestination | the belief that God has determined in advance who will be saved and who will be condemned |
| humanism | an intellectual movement of the Renaissance based on the study of the humanities |
| popular sovereignty | the right to govern through the consent of the people |
| rhetoric | persuasive speech or writing |
| vernacular | the language of everyday speech in a region |
| Christian humanism | a movement that combined classical learning with the goal of reforming the Catholic Church |
| fresco | painting done on fresh, wet plaster with water-based paint |
| linear perspective | artistic technique used to give the effect of three-dimensional depth to two-dimensional surfaces |
| Lutheranism | the religion that Martin Luther developed, the first Protestant faith |
| annul | to declare invalid |
| ghetto | a district in a city where Jewish people were required to live |
| Germany | where Martin Luther is from |
| Italy | where the Renaissance began |
| England | Henry VIII broke away from the Catholic Church as the king of this country |
| Medici | banking family from Florence who supported artists and helped to start the Renaissance |
| Leonardo da Vinci | inventor, artist, mathematician who is famous for the Mona Lisa and Last Supper |
| Michelangelo | artist who painted the Sistine Chapel |
| Filippo Brunelleschi | architect famous for building large domes like Santa Maria del Fiore |
| Christine de Pizan | female author who wrote in defense of women |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | he wrote "The Prince" which talked about a ruler's power |
| Masaccio | artist famous for his use of linear perspective to make things appear 3-dimensional |
| rhetoric, moral philosophy, history, grammar, poetry | the humanities that were studied during the Renaissance |
| John Wycliffe | English philosopher who wrote about problems in the Catholic Church |
| printing press | invention of Johannes Gutenberg that helped spread written information more easily |
| Martin Luther | monk and professor who posted 95 Theses against the Catholic Church in October of 1517 |
| Elizabeth I | daughter of Henry VIII of England who became queen in 1558 and eased religious tension there |
| Jewish people | they continued to face discrimination during and after the Reformation in Europe |
| Greek and Roman | civilizations whose works were revisited during the Renaissance |
| Catholic Reformation | reforms by the Catholic Church to fix some of the problems Protestants identified |
| rebirth | what "Renaissance" means |
| trade | how many Italian city-states became wealthy during the Middle Ages |
Created by:
Mrs. Marquardt