Renaissance Flashcards

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Rulers of Florence for sixty years and the Renaissances most lavish patrons were

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Medici Family

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In the fourteenth century, Italian governments become dominated by

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Alliances of great mercantile families

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The belief of humanism was

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Humans were fundamentally free to choose their own destiny

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Father of Humanism

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Petrarch

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“The Courtier,” the most famous book on Renaissance manners and expectations was authored by

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Castiglione

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The supreme figure in English literature, perhaps world literature, who wrote poetry and 37 plays with great insight into human nature

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Shakespeare

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The Italian artist who made the transition from old to new art, painting a three-dimensional world was

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Giotto

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The Renaissance genius who reinvented architecture in his dome in Florence was

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Brunelleshi

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In “oration on the dignity of man” pico Della Mirandola contends that human beings are unique because they

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Have the ability to shape their own destiny

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The author of the Decameron , 100 bawdy tales by three men and seven women in a country retreat from the plague was

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Boccaccio

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The preeminent intellectual of his day noted for a satire “the praise of folly” was

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Erasmus

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The “School of Athens,” and imaginary gather in ancient philosophers was painted by

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Raphael

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Refusing to compromise his moral principles this man, the author of “Utopia”, it was executed by Henry VIII

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More

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What areas of study were advocated by the humanist

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The Liberal arts

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What was the basic believe of an Anabaptist

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Infant baptism was pointless and baptism should be performed as an adult like Jesus

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What was the result of St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre

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23,000 protestants were killed in Paris and throughout France

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One of the dominant features of the Renaissance thought was a study of ancient _____and _____cultures

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Greek and Roman

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Machiaville wrote ____ _______in the hope that you and Italian ruler with emerge from the Medici family

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The Prince

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Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo personified the Renaissance idea or __________ _____, meaning someone who practice and excelled in a variety of activities or crafts

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Renaissance man

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Boccaccio’s most famous work

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The Decameron

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Italian abbreviation for the 1400s, a period of great artistic achievement

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Was a great patron of the Renaissance artist. Personally leading Papel armies earned the nickname “the warrior pope”

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Pope Julius II

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Spain unified when the monarchs _______ and ________ married

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Isabella and Ferdinand

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Mastered problems and perspective, anatomical naturalism, and his painting “expulsion from Eden” was the first to paint nude figures since antiquity

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The divine beauty of the ceiling figures in the Sistine Chapel is a reflection of the mind of
Michelangelo
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Italian artist that humanized painting, transitioning from old to new art as much as patriarch did for literature
Giotto
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Best-known French humanist that turned a penetration I want to society and produce at tires such as Gargantua and Pantagruel
Rabelais
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Czech hero, martyr, and preacher tapped the resentments Germans had for the church. He was excommunicated and burned at the stake
Jan Hus
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It became practice for Popes to dispense Grace, drawing upon the inexhaustible treasury of merits accumulated by Christ and the saints, through the sale of
Indulgences
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Johann Gutenberg invented printing with movable type around 1450 in the German city of
Mainz
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Martin Luther insisted that the only way to salvation was as a result of
Faith
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Luther announces protest, publicly stating his concerns about indulgences another theological questions by posting his
95 theses
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Charles V gave Luther a chance to make his case before the diet of the Holy Roman Empire in April 1521 held in the city of
Worms
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Charles V failed to stamp out Protestantism within the empire because he was distracted by
Foreign wars
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During the peasants revolt, Luther sided with the
Princes
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The phrase cuius regio, Eius religio, means he who controls The land determinates
Religion
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Calvinist were the most zealous reformers because they believed in
Predestination
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The Society of Jesus were founded by
Ignatius Loyola
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Reforms around the Catholic Church were initiated at the
Council of Trent
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The origins of the Protestant reformation in England were mainly in Henry VIII's battle with the pope over his
Marriage
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French Protestants were called
Huguenots
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Catherine de Medici's first concern was to preserve the French _______ using whatever Allies she can find
Monarchy
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Huguenot religious freedoms and rights of Protestants to participate in French public institutions were recognized by the
Edict of Nantes
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A Christian sect that repudiated infant baptism as a violation of Christian responsibility
Anabaptist
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Struggled to reverse the corrupt legacy of Renaissance predecessors and restore integrity to the papacy
Pope Paul III
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Scottish Calvinist, established the Presbyterian Church is a state church in Scotland
John Knox
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Winning the war of three Henry's, Henry IV converted to Catholicism alleging to have said
Paris is worth the price of a mass
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Absolute monarchy was inconsistent and civil society, according to
John Locke
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Developed a defense of absolute royal authority which did not depend on ideas of divine right
Thomas Hobbes
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In the revolt in the Netherlands, ______ __ ________ led the resistance against the forces of Philip II of Spain
William of Orange