Chapter 12 Flashcards
Renaissance
The “rebirth” of the culture of classical antiquity in Italy during the 14th to 16th century.
Patronage
When cities, groups, and individuals to financially support artist to produce specific works in specific styles.
Communes
Sworn associations of free men led by merchant guilds looking for political and economic independence from nobles.
Popolo
Disenfranchised regular people who resented their exclusion from power.
signori
One-man rule of the government in Italian cities.
courts
Fancy houses and palaces where the signori lived and conducted business.
humanism
The Italians created a program that emphasized the important study of Greek and Latin to hopefully understand human nature.
virtu
Being able to shape the world according to one’s will.
Christian humanists
Northern humanists who interpreted Italian ideas about humanism in terms of their own religion.
debate about women
Debates about women’s roles and qualities in society by writers and thinkers.
New Christians
A term for Jews, Muslims and other people who accepted Christianity
