A | B |
a pardon for sins | indulgence |
a religious movement that began in the 1500s to reform the Catholic Church | Reformation |
a movement based on the study of classical works | humanism |
an official action ending a marriage | annulment |
"classical" learning | Greek and Roman texts |
helped to bring respect back to the Church | Jesuits (Society of Jesus) |
a list of protests nailed to the door of a church by Martin Luther | 95 Theses |
allowed each German prince to determine what religion would be practiced in his kingdom | Peace of Augsburg |
the church that was formed as the result of the conflict between Henry VIII and Pope Clement | the Church of England (Anglican) |
the reasons why Renaissance ideas spread so quickly | the printing press and an increase in literacy |
the argument that Martin Luther used against indulgences | God gives salvation as a gift |
the subject of drawings made by da Vinci that advanced science | anatomy |
an imaginary ideal place | utopia |
the birthplace of the Renaissance | Italy |
one of the most famous examples of Renaissance architecture | St Peter's Basilica |
related to commerce or trade | mercantile |
the view that religion need not be the center of education or other human affairs | secularism |
he is credited with the invention of linear perspective | Fillippo Brunelleschi |
this Renaissance movement viewed learning as a means of self-improvement | humanism |
he wrote "Don Quixote" and was instrumental in the development of the Spanish language | Miguel de Cervantes |
he was a northern European humanist who wrote "The Praise of Folly" | Desiderius Erasmus |
he painted the story of "Creation" on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel | Michelangelo |
he painted the "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper." | Leonardo da Vinci |
this established a "constitutional monarchy" in England | the English Bill of Rights |
a form of government in which power is shared between local and national levels | federalism |
according to this document, no one is above the law, not even a king | Magna Carta |
a theory that states that a king's right to rule comes directly from God | the "divine right of kings" |
a great cultural revival that swept through Europe between the 14th and 16th centuries | Renaissance |
a belief that viewed the individual as more important than the larger community | individualism |