Chapter 12 terms Flashcards
new monarchies
france, england, spain, and germany made new monarchies to centralize their government
civic humanism
belief that people need to be involved with politics and state
entrepreneur
organizes and operates a business
estates
social hierarchy divided in 3 estates (1-clergy, 2-nobility, 3-peasants)
hermeticism
religious tradition based on writings of hermes trismegistus
humanism
focus more on human based life rather than religion aspect, liberal arts and humanities
individualism
people were secular from the church, could do anything by themselves
neo-platonism
following plato about philosophy and recognised the great chain of being, plato in christianity
nepotism
favoring relatives or friends by giving them jobs
pantheism
seeing divinity in all aspects of life
renaissance
rebirth of everything, started in florence (1400),
secularism
separation from church
leonardo bruni
humanist, wrote about cicero, “the renaissance man”
erasmus
humanist, talked about church, dutch, stayed with henry VIII, supported Luther, wanted to reform but not destroy catholicism, infuenced luther
hanseatic league
middle low german area, confederation that was composed of merchant towns, flanders-most important trade centers
lorenzo valla
italian humanist and educator that exposed historical hoaxes
johannes gutenberg
invented printing press
first estate
clergy
l’uomo universale
renaissance man
third estate
peasants