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| Opposition to the power of the clergy, especially in political affairs |
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| The outbreak of plague (mostly bubonic) in the mid-fourteenth century that killed from 25 to 50 percent of Europe's population |
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| Beginning in the Middle Ages, an economic system in which people invested in trade and goods to make profits |
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| Christian (northern) Humanism |
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| An intellectual movement in northern Europe in the late 15th and early 16th centuries that combined the interest in the classics of the Italian Renaissance with an interest in the sources of early Christianity, including the New Testament and the writings of the church fathers |
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| An intellectual movement of the Italian Renaissance that saw Cicero, who was both an intellectual and a statesman, as the ideal and held that humanists should be involved in government and use their rhetorical training in the service of the state |
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| The reciprocal importation and exportation of plants and animals between Europe and the Americas |
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| A movement in 14th & 15th-century Europe that held that final authority in spiritual matters resided with a general church council, not the pope. it emerged in response to the Avignon papacy and the Great Schism and was used to justify the summoning of the Council of Constance (1414-1418) |
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| Leaders of bands of mercenary soldiers in Renaissance Italy who sold their services to the highest bidder |
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| The crisis in the late medieval church when there were first two then three popes; ended by the Council of Constance (1414-1418) |
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| An intellectual movement in Renaissance Italy based on the study of the Greek and Roman classics |
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| In Christian theology, the remission of part or all of the temporal punishment in purgatory due to sin. |
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| The practice in which someone other than a member of the clergy chose a bishop and invested him with the symbols of both his temporal office and his spiritual office |
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| The immediate experience of oneness with God |
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| The "rebirth" of Classical culture that occurred in Italy between c. 1350 and c. 1550 |
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| The process of becoming more concerned with material, worldly, temporal things and less with spiritual and religious things; a characteristic of the Italian Renaissance. |
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| Exaggerated statement of papal supremacy issued by Pope Boniface VIII in 1302 |
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| 1265-1321; Florentine noble who wrote the Divine Comedy - a chronicle of the soul's progression to salvation. |
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| 1304-1374; Florentine aka the "Father of Humanism" was a seminal figure in the revival of the classics. He also wrote extensively about an idealized female, Laura. |
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| 1313-1375; Florentine who wrote, The Decameron, set in the time of the Black Death, reflects the immediate secular values of the time |
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| 1364-1430; Best known for her defense of women in The Book of the City of Ladies (1404) |
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| Swiss historian who wrote, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (1860) in which he portrays 14th and 15th c. Italy as the birthplace of the modern world |
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| 1469-1527; Florentine known for his work, The Prince, one of the most famous and widely read treatises on politics based on his observation of the political unrest in Italy |
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| England, 1455-1471; Won by Henry VII who established the Tudor Dynasty |
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| First great painter of the Renaissance; monumentality and emotionality |
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| Introduced perspective and proportionality |
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| 1st dome created in 900 years; used rounded Roman arches instead of pointed gothic |
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| aka Hansa; Economic and military alliance of north German coastal towns that established a monopoly on trade from the Baltic to the North Sea |
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| 1454; Ended a half-century war within the Italian states, it created an alliance system between Milan, Florence, Naples vs Venice and Papacy to create a balance of power lasting 40 years |
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| Flemish c.1390-1441; The first artist to use oil paints which enabled the artist to use a varied range of colors and create fine details. ie Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride |
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| English c.1328-1484; Followers called Lollards; His disgust with clerical corruption, no basis in the Scripture for papal claims of temporal authority; advocated for popes to be stripped of their authority and property |
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| Czech 1374-1415; Followers called Hussites; Called for reform of RCC; urged the elimination of worldliness and corruption of clergy |
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| 1414-1418; Passed two reform decrees - Sacrosancta and Frequens. Also known for condemning John Hus and burned him at the stake |
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