Question | Answer |
Renaissance | "rebirth" |
humanism | a movement about the study of subjects such as poetry and philosophy |
secular | people who opposed religion |
Baldassare Castiglione | An Italian diplomat and writer about the Renaissance |
Niccolo Machiavelli | An Italian political philosopher who wrote about the rules |
Lorenzo de Medici | A Florentine ruler who supported some of the talented Renaissance |
Leonardo da Vinci | Italian painter, sculpture, architect, musician, engineer,and scientist. His most famous painting was the Mona Lisa |
Michelangelo Buonarroti | An Italian Renaissance sculpture, architect,painter, and a poet |
Raphael | An Italian Renaissance painter. |
Johannes Gutenberg | A German inventor and printer who invented movable type. His first print was a 1,282 page bible |
Desiderius Erasmus | A Dutch priest and humanist who wrote a book about christian life |
Sir Thomas More | An English Statesman and author who wrote a book called Utopia which is about an ideal society |
William Shakespeare | An English dramatist and poet who was famous for creating the drama Romeo and Juliet |
Christine de Pisan | A French poet and author created a work call The City Of Women which is about women society which is about women's education |
Albrecht Durer | An German painter, engraver, and theoretician |
Jan van Eyck | a Flemish painter |
Protestant Reformation | a religious movement in the 1500's that split the christian church in western Europe and led to the establishment of a number of new churches |
indulgences | pardons issued by the pope of the roman catholic church that could reduce a souls time in purgatory |
Martin Luther | A German mock who protests against the Catholic church in 1517 |
theocracy | a government ruled by religious leaders who claimed gods authority |
John Calvin | A French protestant theologian of the Reformation who founded Calvinism that was associated with the doctrine of predestination |
predestination | The belief that at the beginning of time god decided who will gain salvation |
Henry VIII | The king of England from 1509 to 1547 and was desiring to have changed laws and was soon in a fight with the pope |
annulled | declared invalid based on church laws |
Elizabeth I | Queen of England from 1558 to 1603 who is a politician and a diplomat |
Counter Reformation | The Catholic Church's series of reforms in response to the spend of Protestantism in the mid 1500's to the early 1600 |
Jesuits | member of the Catholic religious order the society of Jesus. |
Ignatius of Loyola | A Spanish churchman and founder of the Jesuits |
Council of Trent | A meeting of church leaders in the 1500's |
Charles Borromeo | An Archbishop |
Francis of Scales | A French Roman catholic leader and preacher |
Teresa of Avila | A Spanish Carmelite nun and once one of the principle saints of the Roman catholic church |