Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition! (Counter-Reformation)
If it ain't Baroque...
Luther and Friends
Henry VIII's Tinder Matches
Wars of Religion
400
Name of the list of banned books maintained and enforced by the Catholic Church

What is the Index Librorum Prohibitorum?

400

The Baroque was associated with which religious movement in early modern Europe?

What is the Catholic Counter-Reformation?

400

In 1517, Luther supposedly nailed these to the door of a church in Wittenberg

What are the 95 Theses?

400

Henry VIII's first wife, a princess from the Spanish branch of the Habsburg family who gave him a daughter (Mary I) but not a son...

What is Catherine of Aragon?

400

Queen of France who presided over the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

Catherine de Medici 

800
Name of the founder of the Society of Jesus, a new monastic order in the Catholic Reformation
Who is St. Ignatius of Loyola?
800

Rembrandt and Vermeer were famous artists in this period, a subsection of the Baroque era in a newly-independent country

What is the Dutch Golden Age?

800

Name of the itinerant friar who angered Luther so much that he wrote the 95 Theses

Who is Johann Tetzel?

800

Henry VIII's fifth wife - beheaded for having an affair with a courtier 

Who is Catherine Howard?

800

Descriptor given to leaders who prioritized the prosperity of the realm over questions of religious identity 

Politique 

1200

Major ecumenical council that was called to deal with Protestant Reformers and their critiques of the Church

What is the Council of Trent?

1200

Name of the most prolific portrait painter of the Baroque period from Flanders

Who is Peter Paul Rubens?
1200

First leader of the Swiss Reformed Church, who broke with the Catholic Church partially over the issue of eating meat during Lent

Who was Ulrich Zwingli?
1200

Henry VIII's second wife, and mother to a future Queen (Elizabeth I)

Who is Anne Boleyn?

1200

Name for the massacres carried out by undisciplined and leaderless troops against the Dutch people in the 1570s

The Spanish Fury

1600

St. Theresa of Avila was involved in reforming this monastic order

The Carmelites 

1600

Name of the art style that followed the High Renaissance but preceded the Baroque - characterized by heightened emotion and distorted figures

What is Mannerism?

1600

Idea disseminated by John Calvin that a certain, tiny percentage of people were God's chosen or "elect"

What is Predestination?

1600

Henry VIII's sixth wife, who outlived him

Who is Catherine Parr?

1600
Peace treaty ending the Thirty Years' War

What was the Peace of Westphalia?

2000
The inciting incident which sparked the Thirty Years' War, wherein two imperial officials survived a long fall (possibly due to angels...possibly due to refuse heap...)

What was the Defenestration of Prague?

2000

This Italian sculptor was commissioned by the papacy to complete artwork within St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican

Who is Bernini? 

2000
Name of Luther's interpretation of the Eucharist, which stressed that the essence of God was already found in the bread and wine used during the ceremony

What is consubstantiation? 

2000

Henry VIII's third wife who gave him a legitimate male heir, but died in childbirth

Who is Jane Seymour?

2000

Leader of the radical Catholic League during the French Wars of Religion until his assassination by the king

Who was Henry, Duke of Guise?

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