chapter 12 flashcards

Question 1

Renaissance

Answer 1

a rebirth of culture in Europe from the 14th-16th century

Question 2

Patronage

Answer 2

people would pay writers and artists to support them for communities, cities and groups

Question 3

Communes

Answer 3

Italian men led by merchant guilds trying to get political/economical freedom from nobles

Question 4

Popolo

Answer 4

disenfranchised people in Italy who resented their exclusion of power

Question 5

Signori

Answer 5

government ruled by one man Italian cities like Milan

Question 6

courts

Answer 6

big households where signori lived, did business and supported art

Question 7

Humanism

Answer 7

studying the Latin and Greek form of human nature

Question 8

Virt’u

Answer 8

being able to shape the world with your own will

Question 9

Christian Humanists

Answer 9

northern humanist who incorporated their own ideas into classical antiquity and religious traditions

Question 10

Debate About Women

Answer 10

debate about women during the renaissance among writers and thinkers

Question 11

New Christians

Answer 11

Jews and Muslims in the Iberian peninsula who accepted Christianity