Humanism was in part a revival of the study of these two ancient cultures.
What are the Greek and the Roman?
100
This Italian city, dominated by the Medici family, is considered the "heart" or the "birthplace" of European Renaissance culture.
What is Florence?
100
This is believed to have slowed the movement of Renaissance thinkers and artists to the northern parts of Europe.
What is the Black Plague?
100
The first great split in the Christian church created the Rome-based Catholic church and the Orthodox church, based in this city, which is in modern-day Turkey.
What is Constantinople?
100
Taxation to support this epic war led to peasant revolts in England and France in the 14th and 15th centuries.
What is the Hundred Years' War?
200
The type of humanism synonymous with the Renaissance in Italy.
What is "pagan" or "civic" humanism?
200
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!!
Who is Machiavelli?
200
Erasmus is said to have "laid the egg that Luther hatched" with works such as this 1513 satire of immorality and hypocrisy of Church leaders.
What is "In Praise of Folly"?
200
During the "Babylonian Captivity," seven successive Catholic popes resided in this French-controlled city.
What is Avignon?
200
The size of this financial incentive often determined to whom Renaissance-era women would be married.
What is a dowry?
300
Many humanist scribes were known for writing in this style rather than using the traditional academic languages of Greek and Latin.
What is the vernacular?
300
Leonardo da Vinci is widely regarded as the quintessential version of "l'uomo universale," or the universal this.
What is "Renaissance Person" or "Renaissance Man"?
300
Whereas many Italian Renaissance artists used tempera-based paints on their masterpieces, works by masters in the north such as Van Eyck, Bosch, and Brueghel used this type of paint to capture intricate details of their subjects.
What is oil-based paint?
300
This movement, which sought to reform the Christian church through a governing council of cardinals, effectively ended the period known as the "Great Schism."
What is the "Conciliar Movement"?
300
The period following the Black Plague witnessed a boom in this female-dominated occupation.
What is prostitution?
400
These humanists, who include figures like Erasmus and Thomas More, sought to change the Church from within; their efforts would spark what we now know as the "Reformation."
Who are the Christian Humanists?
400
Two great statues of this biblical figure, one in bronze by Donatello and the other in marble by Michelangelo, capture the Renaissance emphasis on ideal human forms.
Who is David?
400
The most commonly printed document to come off of Johann Gutenberg's improved version of the printing press.
What are indulgences?
400
The Lollards, followers of early Church reformer John Wyclif, inspired this Czech church reformer who was later burned at the stake for his heretical views.
Who is John (Jan) Hus?
400
This author wrote "The City of the Ladies," regarded as a Renaissance woman's survival guide and one of the first feminist works in Europe.
Who is Christine de Pizan?
500
While Erasmus has been called the "Prince of Humanism," he is commonly referred to as the "Father of Humanism."
Who is Petrarch?
500
The period known as the "High Renaissance" is defined largely by sponsoring of the arts, also called this, by the papacy in Rome.
What is patronage?
500
This English humanist and author of "Utopia" was executed by Henry VIII for refusing to recognize the Act of Supremacy.
Who is Thomas More?
500
Thomas Aquinas pioneered this medieval school of philosophical thought, which attempted to reconcile faith and reason by using logic to support Christian doctrine.
What is scholasticism?
500
The breakdown of social support structures traditionally headed by the Church led to this craze that disproportionately targeted elderly women.