Late Medieval
In Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, where are the travelers going?
Cantebury
The meter Shakespeare used to compose his sonnets is known as _______-.
Iambic Pentameter
The first freestanding life-sized sculpture of a human since antiquity was created by whom?
Donatello
What invention aided the rapid spread of Protestantism?
The printing press
The Renaissance was born in what city?
Florence
The war that began as squabbling over the throne of Charles IV is now known as _________.
A) French Revolution
B) The great Game
C) The Hundred Years WarD) Wars of Succession
100 Years War
Shakespeare's Sonnets are composed of __________ lines.
14
Brunelleschi defined the laws of ______ as a tool for creating the appearance of three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface.
perspective
Erasmus' Praise of Folly is a landmark example of what genre?
Satire
The prominent family that patronized many of the arts in Florence.
Medici
What specific part of the human anatomy did the Black Death affect?
lymphatic system; lymph node
The founder of Protestantism favored above all others the following types of music?
The chorale
Who painted The Birth of Venus sometime after 1482?
Botticelli
Luther asserted that the key to salvation was what act?
Faith
The father of the new movement to recover, edit, and study ancient Greek and Latin manuscripts is generally regarded to be
The death of Charles IV of France in 1328 ended the Capet line of monarchs and opened up claims to the French throne by ______.
The English
Durer is renowned for utilzing this medium of art
Woodcut
The composer Josquin des Prez, was one of the most effective practitioners of which expressive musical technique, in which music conveys the literal meaning of a text?
Word Painting
Luther posted his landmark Ninety-Five Theses on a cathedral door in which city?
Wittenburg
The artistic and intellectual movement to recover, edit, and study ancient Greek and Latin manuscripts is called
classical humanism
The relocation of the papacy from Rome to ________ is generally recognized as the beginning of the Great Schism.
Avignon
When a character speaks about his psychological state in Shakespeare in a speech, it is known as:
Soliliquoy
________, the quintessential artist-scientist, tried to reconcile empirical experience with abstract principles of design.
Leonardo
This reformer emphasized predestination, the Protestant work ethic in Geneva, Switzerland.
The Venetian writer ________ is famous for her written retort to a contemporary diatribe promoting the defects of women in The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects Vices of Men.
Marinella