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| A masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City. It is the first of a number of works of the same theme by the artist. |
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| An Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. |
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| A program of study designed by Italians that emphasized the critical study of Latin and Greek literature with the goal of understanding human nature. |
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| An Italian humanist, rhetorician, and educator. He is best known for his textual analysis that proved that the Donation of Constantine was a forgery. |
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| His family held power for continuously for almost 100 years. |
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| Helped reach an agreement about the separation of church and state. |
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| A major Italian poet of the Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy, originally called La Comedia and later called Divina by Boccaccio, is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature. |
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| Italian poet and humanist. Believed the barbarian migration had caused a sharp cultural break with the glories of Rome. |
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| The best known political theorist of his era. Wrote this book. The book argues that the function of a ruler is to preserve order and security. |
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| Italian writer. Wrote a book of tales which included the course of the Black Plague in Florence. |
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| Architecture and trade was really big here. Architecture thanks to Medici. |
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| Where the Renaissance began. |
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| Territories in the Italian peninsula that were under direct rule of the Pope. |
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| One of five powers that dominated the Italian peninsula. |
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| This kingdom was one of five powers that dominated the Italian peninsula. |
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| A form of legal immunity and a policy held between governments that ensures that diplomats are given safe passage and are considered not susceptible to lawsuit or prosecution under the host country's laws, although they can still be extradited. |
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| One that resides in the country he or she is accredited. |
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| Hegemony and the Balance of Powers |
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| Influence or control over another country or group. The idea that national security is enhanced when military capabilities are distributed so that no one state is strong enough to dominate all others. |
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| The Renaissance that occurred in the European countries north of Italy. |
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| Dutch humanist. Exceptional knowledge of Greek and the Bible. Wrote The Education of a christian Prince. |
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| Humanists from northern Europe who thought that the best elements of classical and Christian cultures should be combined and saw humanist learning as a way to bring about reform of the church and deepen people's spiritual lives. |
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| Grandson of Frederick III. France and the Ottoman Empire were enemies to him. |
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| Transformed the metal stamps to be covered with ink and used to put symbols on a page. Created the first printing press. |
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| Originally was the settlement area of the Saxons. |
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| An English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman and noted Renaissance humanist. |
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| A German monk, Catholic priest, professor of theology and seminal figure of a reform movement in 16th century Christianity, subsequently known as the Protestant Reformation. |
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| A Catholic German Dominican preacher known for selling indulgences. |
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| A remission of temporal punishment due to sin, the guilt of which has been forgiven. |
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| A major uprising across large parts of England in 1381. Had various causes, including the economic and political tensions generated by the Black Death in the 1340s, the high taxes resulting from the conflict with France during the Hundred Years War, and instability within the local leadership of London. |
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| A leader of the Reformation in Switzerland. |
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| A meeting at Marburg Castle, Marburg, Hesse, Germany which attempted to solve a dispute between Martin Luther and Ulrich Zwingli over the Real Presence of Christ in the Lord's Supper. |
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| An imperial diet of the Holy Roman Empire held in Worms, Germany at the Heylshof Garden in 1521. |
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| 95 Theses of Martin Luther |
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| The initial catalyst for the Protestant Reformation. The disputation protests against clerical abuses, especially the sale of indulgences. |
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| Any of several church denominations denying the universal authority of the Pope and affirming the Reformation principles of justification by faith alone. |
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| That salvation or redemption is a gift of God's grace, attainable only through faith in Jesus as the Messiah. |
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| An influential French theologian and pastor during the Protestant Reformation. He was a principal figure in the development of the system of Christian theology later called Calvinism. |
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