Chapter 14 and 15 Vocabulary Flashcards
Period of rebirth of art and learning in Europe Lasting from about 1300 to 1600.
Renaissance
Focus on human potential and achievements.
Humanism
Concerned with worldly matters rather than spiritual matters.
Secular
Person who financially supported artists.
Patron
Art technique that re-creates three dimensions.
Perspective
Italian painter, sculptor, architect, painter, and poet.
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian sculptor, architect, painter, and poet.
Michelangelo
An ideal place.
Utopia
Famous renaissance wittier.
William shakespeare
German craftsman who developed the printing press.
Johann Gutenberg
Use of native language instead of Classical Latin.
Vernacular
Questioning ideas before accepting them.
Skepticism
German monk whose protests against the Catholic Church led to the reformation.
Martin Luther
Release from punishments due for a sin.
Indulgences
16th Century movement for religious reform, leading to the founding of new christian churches.
Reformation
Take away a person’s right to membership in a church.
Excommunicate
Member of a Protestant church founded on the teachings of Martin Luther.
Lutheran
Member of a christian church founded on the principles of the Reformation.
Protestant
Agreement of 1555 declaring that the religion of each German state would be decided by its ruler.
Peace of Augsburg
King of England whose conflict with the catholic church led to England becoming Protestant.
Henry VIII
Cancel or put an end to.
Annul
Queen of England who reasserted Protestantism in England.
Elizabeth I
Relating to the church of England.
Anglican
Swiss catholic priest who attacked abusers of the catholic church.
Huldrych Zwingli
French Protestant who taught the idea of predestination.
John Calvin
Doctrine that God had decided things beforehand, including which people will be saved.
Predestination
Religious teachings based on the ideas of the reformer John Calvin.
Calvinism
Government controlled by religious leaders.
Theocracy
Scottish preacher who founded Presbyterianism.
John Knox
Member of a Protestant church governed by elders and founded by John Knox.
Presbyterian
Protestant group during the Reformation who believed only adults should be baptized and that the church and state should be separate.
Anabaptists
16th Century catholic reform movement in response to the Protestant Reformation.
Catholic Reformation
Spanish noble who founded the Jesuits.
Ignatius of Loyola
Members of the Society of Jesus, a Roman catholic religious order founded by Ignatius of Loyola.
Jesuits
Meeting of Roman Catholic leaders to rule on doctrines criticized by the Protestant Reformers.
Council of Trent
Someone accused of having religious belief contrary to the teachings of the church.
Heretic
Independent geopolitical unit of people having a common culture and identity.
Nation-state
Catholic court that investigated and punished people thought to be against the church.
Inquisition
Denial of church teachings.
Heresy
Followers of Calvinism in France.
Huguenots
