Unit 1 Vocab
Historical period from 1300 to 1800.
What is the Little Ice Age?
Although the war last 116 years, it is commonly called...
What is the Hundred Year War.
Rural and urban workers demanded higher wages and better working conditions, which led Parliament to pass this law.
What is the Statute of Laborers?
A French word meaning "rebirth," is used to describe the rebirth of the culture of classical antiquity in Italy during the 14th to 16th centuries.
What is the Renaissance?
The quality of being able to shape the world according to one's own will.
What is virtu?
This was known as the "Great Plague" or "Great Pestilence" in its time.
What is the Black Death?
The period from 1309 to 1376 when the popes lived in Avignon.
What is the Babylonian Captivity?
The most extensive attempt to prevent intermarriage and "protect ethnic purity" was embodied in which statute?
What is the Statute of Kilkenny?
Financial support of writers and artists by cities, groups and individuals, often to produce specific works or works in specific styles.
What is patronage?
Debate among writers and thinkers in the Renaissance about women's qualities and proper societal roles.
What is the debate about women?
Groups would whip and scourge themselves as penance for their own and society's sins.
What are flagellants?
The period during which there were two popes, Urban VI and Clement VII.
What is the Great Schism?
Lay groups organized by occupation, devotional preference, neighborhood, or charitable activity.
What are confraternities?
The transformation of the European economy resulted from changes in business procedures and trade growth.
What is commercial revolution?
Northern humanists who interpreted Italian ideas about and attitudes toward classical antiquity and humanism in terms of their religious traditions.
What are Christian Humanists?
This laid the foundations for the representative institutions of modern democratic nations.
What are representative assemblies?
The uprising of the French peasantry in 1358.
What is the Jacquerie?
Magnificient households and palaces in Italy where signori and other rulers lived, conducted business, and supported the arts.
What are courts?
What are communes?
A term for Jews and Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula who accepted Christianity; in many cases, they included Christians whose families had concerted centries earlier.
Who are the New Christians?
These people believed that church reform could best be achieved through periodic assemblies representing all Christian people.
What are the conciliarists?
A tax on all adult males to pay for the war with France led to the revolt.
What is the English Peasants' Revolt?
A program of study designed by Italians that emphasized the critical study of Latin and Greek literature to understand human nature.
What is humanism?
Government by one-man rule in Italian cities such as Milan; also refers to these rulers.
What is a signori?
This nation remained a conglomerate of independent kingdoms until about 1700, unlike the unified nation-states of England and France.
Who is Spain?