This trend in art and literature led to realism and a focus on topics other than just the typical religious ones.
What is humanism?
This is the author of THE PRINCE, a book advising you to lie and cheat.
Who was Machiavelli?
This is the person who began the events of the Protestant reformation.
Who was Martin Luther?
This was the group that the counter-reformation aimed to COUNTER, or oppose.
Who were the Protestants?
The astronomer who perfected the telescope and was tried in an Inquisition court for his views.
Who was Galileo?
This artist was also an inventor of flying machines and robots, and an investigator of human anatomy.
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
This author of IN PRAISE OF FOLLY satirized serious religious thinkers.
Who was Erasmus?
This was the meeting in which Luther was banished from the Holy Roman Empire for refusing to take back his beliefs.
What is the Diet of Worms?
This meeting allowed Catholics to set guidelines for church officials' behavior.
What was the Council of Trent?
Name for the theory that the earth and other planets go around the Sun.
heliocentric
This artist made woodcuts of incredible detail and self-portraits that bothered the church.
Who was Albrecht Durer?
This book about a crazy Christian knight made fun of somethings the church really admired.
What is Don Quixote?
This was the name of the Protestant churches founded by Henry 8th when the pope would not annul his marriage.
What was the Church of England or Anglican church?
These courts tried people for heresy.
What was the Inquisition?
The scientist who first developed and wrote about the heliocentric theory.
Who was Copernicus?
This gifted artist painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome and sculpted amazingly realistic statues of religious figures.
Who was Michelangelo?
This English writer churned out multiple plays and poems.
Who was William Shakespeare?
This agreement allowed princes in the German-speaking HOly Roman Empire to choose whether to become Catholic or Protestant.
What was the Peace of Augsburg?
This organization of priests and monks became a leading group of Catholic missionaries.
Who were the Jesuits (Society of Jesus)?
British scientist who discovered the circulation of blood in the body.
Who was William Harvey?
This phrase refers to elements of ancient Greek and Roman thinking, art, and architecture, which came back into style in the Renaissance.
What is 'classical' thinking?
This Spanish writer got hauled in front of the Inquisition for his book, Don Quixote.
Who was Cervantes?
This is the place and the name of the law that protected the Huguenots.
What is FRance and the Edict of Nantes?
This is one of the countries in which the Inquisition was particularly strong.
What is Spain, Italy, or Portugal?
Scientist who studied planetary motion to see if Copernicus's theories were correct.
Who was Johannes Kepler?