Renaissance KT (46-91)

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The “German” imperial diet or parliment

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Reichstag

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This goldsmith created the so-called “Gates of Paradise”

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Lorenzo Ghiberti

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A central disciplines of the liberal arts; the art of using language as a means to persuade

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Rhetoric

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They were expelled in Spain in 1492 by the same rulers that commissioned the Italian sailor Christopher Columbus

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Jews

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It was inducted by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain in 1478 to guarantee the orthodoxy of Christians

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Inquisition

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technical term for how historians do history and have done it in the past

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Histiography

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Artist of “The Birth of Venus” and “Primavera”

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Sandro Botticelli

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The preeminent printmaker of the Renaissance; a master of both woodcutting and engraving

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Albrecht Durer

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Name for the technique by which artists create the illusion of depth on a two-dimensional surface

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Linear perspective

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Famous Swiss historian who, in his “The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy”, argued that the Italian Renaissance was the birthplace of the modern world with its focus on individualism and secularism

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Jacob Burckhardt

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Method used by Donatello to create his bronze “David”

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Lost Wax Method

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Name for the first generation of printed books (which were often religious, the first of which being the “Gutenberg Bible”, and were printed pre-1500 C.E.)

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Incunables

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Oxford theologian who alleged that there was no basis in Scripture for papal claims of temporal authority and advocated that the popes be stripped of their authority and their property

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John Wycliffe

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Comprised of the House of Lords and House of commons (the British representative body)

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Parlaiment

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This “reconquest” of the Iberian peninsula from Muslim Moors was accomplished by Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon

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Reconquista

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B.C.E.

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Before the common era

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The most celebrated female painter of the Renaissance; best known for her portraits of Bolognese Nobles

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Lavinia Fontana

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Famous banking faily of florence

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Medici

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The “universal person” who was capable of achievements in many facets of life

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L’uomo universale

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Dynastic family that controlled the elected monarchy of the Holy Roman Empire and their vast holdings in Austria

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Habsberg

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The emphasis on this type of painting gives evidence of a renewed commitment to human individuality

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Portraiture

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Intellectual movement of the Italian Renaissance based on the study of the classical literary works of Greco-Roman antiquity

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Humanism

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What “Renaissance” literally means

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Rebirth

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the Tudor dynasty came to power in England after this civil war

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War of the Roses

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Celebrated historian who has influentially argued that the printing press was the agent of change in early modern Europe

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Elizabeth Eisenstein

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This king of paint dries more slowly than tempera and gives the artist a varied range of colors and the ability to create fine details

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Oil paint

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Infamous Florentine Dominican preacher who called for a “Bonfire of the Vanities”

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Girolamo Savonarola

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The central proposition defended in an essay

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Thesis

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A period in history dominated by the upper classes, the wealthy, and/or the educated

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Italian Renaissance

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French annual direct tax on land or property

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Taille

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Money presented by the wife’s family to the husband upon marriage

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Dowry

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Type of family typical to the Renaissance that included parents, children, and servants (if the family was wealthy) and could also include grandparents, widowed mothers, and even unmarried sisters

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Extended family

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“Mens sana in corpore sano”; a goal of classical education

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“A sound mind in a sound body”

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The national diet (assembly) of Poland

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Sejm

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English civil war that pitted the ducal house of Lancaster, whose symbol was a red rose, against the ducal house of York, whose symbol was a white rose

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The War of the Roses

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B.C.

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Before Christ

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Created by Henry VII to control the nobility, it became a symbol of the misuse and abuse of power by the English monarchy and courts

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The Star Chamber

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He urged the elimination of the worldliness and corruption of the clergy and attacked the excessive power of the papacy within the Catholic Church; later executed for heresy at the Council of Constance

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Jan Huss

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Nickname of the papacy from the end of the Great Schism to the Reformation, when temporal preoccupations tended to overshadow spiritual matters

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Renaissance papacy

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The French parliament

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Etates-General

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Using contextual criticism, this humanist demonstrated the “Donation of Constantine” was a forgery

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Lorenzo Valla

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The “domestic enemy” in Renaissance Italy

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Slaves

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Most people in the Western world use this calendar

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Gregorian calender

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Ten years

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Decade

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One hundred years

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Century

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One thousand years

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Millenium