Renaissance ideas did not spread to here until 1485
What is England
100
French for “Rebirth”
What is Renaissance
100
Perhaps the most famous playwright in history, this English man wrote many plays and sonnets, including Macbeth and The Taming of the Shrew
Who is William Shakespeare
100
He is credited with the invention of the printing press
Who is Johannes Gutenberg
100
The Origin of the Renaissance
What is Italy
200
The price of admission to see Shakespeare’s Hamlet
What is one penny
200
The main scholarly language of the Renaissance
What is Latin
200
The author of the famous Latin book Utopia
Who is Thomas More
200
A physician and monk who wrote comic tales and parodies, including Gargantua and Pantagruel
Who is François Rabelais
200
An area made up of present-day Belgium, Luxembourg, and The Netherlands
What are The Low Countries
300
Shakespeare dealt with universal human qualities such as jealousy, ambition, love and this
What is despair
300
Groups of scholars who wished for reforms in Roman Catholicism
What is Christian Humanists
300
He is considered one of the most famous Christian Humanists, most likely for his The Praise of Folly, but also for inspiring his colleagues to study Greek and Hebrew, as to understand older versions of the Bible
Who is Desiderius Erasmus
300
First of the Tudor family to rule England, he invited Italian Renaissance scholars to bring the movement to England
Who is King Henry VII
300
Where large country estates were primarily built
What is the Loire River Valley
400
In the early 1400’s developed the technique of painting in this medium
What are oils
400
The main religion of Europe during the Renaissance and still the largest today
What is Roman Catholicism
400
An author who wrote sonnets about love and immortality
Who is Pierre Ronsard
400
An Artist who, along with Albrecht Dürer, combined Italian technique with the artistic traditions of their homelands
Who is Pieter Brueghel
400
Where, by the 1400’s, engravers had developed moveable type
What is Germany
500
Bloody conflicts over who had the rightful heir to the throne of England, with the Tudor family ultimately beating the York family
What is the Wars of the Roses
500
French castles and manorial/country estates
What is Châteaux
500
An artist who, along with his brother, Hubert, led a group of Flemish painters in the 1400’s
Who is Jan van Eyck
500
An author who based his informal and direct style on Italian literary models
Who is Michel de Montaigne
500
Christopher Marlowe, amongst other famous playwrights, drew ideas from medieval legends, mythologies, and histories of England, Denmark and this society