Vocabulary & Core Ideas
Something you could purchase from the Church to be granted forgiveness from your sins
Indulgences
A wealthy banking family from Italy who were patrons of the arts
The Medici Family
Technique that creates the illusion of depth on a flat surface.
Perspective
To formally withdraw one’s statements or beliefs.
Recant
king who established the Church of England
King Henry VIII
An ideal or perfect society
Utopian
Author of The Prince, who said it’s better to be feared than loved.
Niccolò Machiavelli
The invention that helped spread Renaissance and Reformation ideas.
Printing Press
Martin Luther started this movement in Germany.
Protestant-Reformation
The Renaissance began in the city-states of this European country
Italy
education involving history, literature, grammar and rhetoric
Rhetoric
Italian painter and inventor of the Mona Lisa and Last Supper.
Leonardo da Vinci
The use of shading and realistic anatomy in art to create lifelike images
Realism
What was Martin Luther's main problem with the Catholic Church?
The selling of indulgences
What were the 3 MAIN causes of the Renaissance?
The Crusades, the Black Death, and increased trade
To cancel or invalidate
Annul
German monk who challenged the Catholic Church with his 95 Theses.
A term for Greek and Roman culture
Classicalism
the idea that God determined long ago who would achieve salvation
Predestination
English queen who led a moderate course in religion known as Anglicanism
Queen Elizabeth I
government run by church leaders
Theocracy
Religious reformer from Geneva who believed in predestination.
John Calvin
Intellectual movement that focused on worldly subjects.
Humanism
The Catholic Church’s movement to reform itself.
Counter-Reformation
Why did the Renaissance take longer to reach Northern Europe?
The Black Death delayed economic progress