Middle Ages Vocabulary
The soldiers of Medieval Europe; trade military service for food and shelter from the Lord
What is a Knight?
Greek and Roman texts.
What are classical texts?
The most important institution during the Middle Ages
What is the Church?
The Renaissance had an economy based on __________ rather than agriculture
What is commerce/business?
Art that used dull colors instead of bright ones
What is Medieval Art?
The Medieval system in which people were given land and protection by people of higher rank, and worked and fought in return
What is Feudalism?
The rebirth or revival of interest in classical texts (Greek and Roman)
What was the Renaissance?
The top of the Feudal hierarchy
Who is The King?
The practice of questioning things rather than taking them at face-value
What is Skepticism?
Art that used perspective and more lifelike styles
What is Renaissance Art?
The name of the land given to a lord
What is a Fief?
A wealthy individual who supported artists in order to show status.
What was a patron?
The bottom of the Feudal Hierarchy
Who are the Serfs?
_________ impacted the spread of Humanist ideas during the Renaissance due to the greater availability of books
What was the Printing Press?
Art that was either secular or religious, not just religious
What is Renaissance Art?
Peasants who could not legally leave the land/manor they were born in.
What is a Serf?
Inventor of the Printing Press
Who was Gutenberg?
Another name for the Bubonic Plague, which killed 60% of the European Population
What is the Black Death?
The empire that preserved the classical texts that inspired the European Renaissance
What was the Islamic Empire?
What is a patron?
The name of the person receiving land from a King or Lord
What is a Vassal?
A philosophy, or way of life, that places human achievement above religion
What is Humanism?
The center of the Feudal community; where the Lord lives
What is the Manor?
A person with many talents or areas of knowledge
What is a "Renaissance Man"?
Art that used egg tempera paints rather than oil paints
What is Medieval Art?