Ren & Ref Flashcards
What year for Renaissance?
1350-1550
Renaissance was rebirth in…
Art and learning
Renaissance subjects the _____ and _____ studied
Greeks and Romans
Italy was the center of…
Roman Empire
Italian cities in 1300’s were…
Wealthy
Italy was divided into..
City states
Italian competition brought out
Renaissance
City state, most famous, produced many artists
Florence
Way of understanding the world that believed that the individual and human society were important (relied on religious reasons)
Renaissance humanism
Scientist and artist Deserted corpses Famous notebooks The last supper Mona Lisa
Da Vinci
Painted, sculpted and designed buildings
Sistine chapel ceiling
The David
Moses
Michel Angelo
Renaissance spreads north to England
Writer of tragedies comedies and historical plays
Introduced over 1,000 words to the English language
Hamlet, Macbeth, a midsummer nights dream, Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare
Calls for church reform
Reformation
Many wanted to reform the Catholic Church
Reformation
Taxed people too heavily and spent lavishly
The church
Sold by the church to reduce a punishment for sin
Indulgences
1517 - challenged the Catholic Church and led a movement known as Protestantism (to protest)
Believed that only faith = salvation
Excommunication by pope
Created his own denomination (branch)
Martin Luther
Arguments against indulgences (Wittenberg)
Ninety five theses
God decides everything in advance including who will go to heaven and hell - predestination
To proved they were chosen people lived good lives and worked hard
Kings couldn’t run the church
Became the PURITANS (Calvinism)
Believed in theocracy - church led gov
John Calvin
Agreed with Luther but added some new ideas
Became the PURITANS
Calvinism
1500s and 1600s Catholic Church set out to defeat
Protestantism = counter - reformation
Counter reformation
Wars were fought until…
1648
Society of Jesus popes agents to spread Catholicism
Jesuits
Worst religious war of the reformation
Thirty years war
