Renaissance Flashcards
Rulers of Florence for sixty years and the Renaissances most lavish patrons were
Medici Family
In the fourteenth century, Italian governments become dominated by
Alliances of great mercantile families
The belief of humanism was
Humans were fundamentally free to choose their own destiny
Father of Humanism
Petrarch
“The Courtier,” the most famous book on Renaissance manners and expectations was authored by
Castiglione
The supreme figure in English literature, perhaps world literature, who wrote poetry and 37 plays with great insight into human nature
Shakespeare
The Italian artist who made the transition from old to new art, painting a three-dimensional world was
Giotto
The Renaissance genius who reinvented architecture in his dome in Florence was
Brunelleshi
In “oration on the dignity of man” pico Della Mirandola contends that human beings are unique because they
Have the ability to shape their own destiny
The author of the Decameron , 100 bawdy tales by three men and seven women in a country retreat from the plague was
Boccaccio
The preeminent intellectual of his day noted for a satire “the praise of folly” was
Erasmus
The “School of Athens,” and imaginary gather in ancient philosophers was painted by
Raphael
Refusing to compromise his moral principles this man, the author of “Utopia”, it was executed by Henry VIII
More
What areas of study were advocated by the humanist
The Liberal arts
What was the basic believe of an Anabaptist
Infant baptism was pointless and baptism should be performed as an adult like Jesus
What was the result of St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre
23,000 protestants were killed in Paris and throughout France
One of the dominant features of the Renaissance thought was a study of ancient _____and _____cultures
Greek and Roman
Machiaville wrote ____ _______in the hope that you and Italian ruler with emerge from the Medici family
The Prince
Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo personified the Renaissance idea or __________ _____, meaning someone who practice and excelled in a variety of activities or crafts
Renaissance man
Boccaccio’s most famous work
The Decameron
Italian abbreviation for the 1400s, a period of great artistic achievement
Quattrocento
Was a great patron of the Renaissance artist. Personally leading Papel armies earned the nickname “the warrior pope”
Pope Julius II
Spain unified when the monarchs _______ and ________ married
Isabella and Ferdinand
Mastered problems and perspective, anatomical naturalism, and his painting “expulsion from Eden” was the first to paint nude figures since antiquity
Masaccio
The divine beauty of the ceiling figures in the Sistine Chapel is a reflection of the mind of
Michelangelo
Italian artist that humanized painting, transitioning from old to new art as much as patriarch did for literature
Giotto
Best-known French humanist that turned a penetration I want to society and produce at tires such as Gargantua and Pantagruel
Rabelais
Czech hero, martyr, and preacher tapped the resentments Germans had for the church. He was excommunicated and burned at the stake
Jan Hus
It became practice for Popes to dispense Grace, drawing upon the inexhaustible treasury of merits accumulated by Christ and the saints, through the sale of
Indulgences
Johann Gutenberg invented printing with movable type around 1450 in the German city of
Mainz
Martin Luther insisted that the only way to salvation was as a result of
Faith
Luther announces protest, publicly stating his concerns about indulgences another theological questions by posting his
95 theses
Charles V gave Luther a chance to make his case before the diet of the Holy Roman Empire in April 1521 held in the city of
Worms
Charles V failed to stamp out Protestantism within the empire because he was distracted by
Foreign wars
During the peasants revolt, Luther sided with the
Princes
The phrase cuius regio, Eius religio, means he who controls The land determinates
Religion
Calvinist were the most zealous reformers because they believed in
Predestination
The Society of Jesus were founded by
Ignatius Loyola
Reforms around the Catholic Church were initiated at the
Council of Trent
The origins of the Protestant reformation in England were mainly in Henry VIII’s battle with the pope over his
Marriage
French Protestants were called
Huguenots
Catherine de Medici’s first concern was to preserve the French _______ using whatever Allies she can find
Monarchy
Huguenot religious freedoms and rights of Protestants to participate in French public institutions were recognized by the
Edict of Nantes
A Christian sect that repudiated infant baptism as a violation of Christian responsibility
Anabaptist
Struggled to reverse the corrupt legacy of Renaissance predecessors and restore integrity to the papacy
Pope Paul III
Scottish Calvinist, established the Presbyterian Church is a state church in Scotland
John Knox
Winning the war of three Henry’s, Henry IV converted to Catholicism alleging to have said
Paris is worth the price of a mass
Absolute monarchy was inconsistent and civil society, according to
John Locke
Developed a defense of absolute royal authority which did not depend on ideas of divine right
Thomas Hobbes
In the revolt in the Netherlands, ______ __ ________ led the resistance against the forces of Philip II of Spain
William of Orange