Chapter 13 Renaissance
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- Hanseatic League
- Northern economic league
- Civic Humanism
- the individual is responsible for applying his knowledge for public service
- virtu
- well rounded, educated
- Princely Courts
- where despots or oligarchs lived, conducted business, and displayed their wealth and patronage of the arts
- scutage
- payment for military service
- Bosworth Field
- battle that secured Tudor dynasty in England
- The Decameron
- collection of 100 allegorical tales by Boccacio
- Chiaroscuro
- contrast in light and dark
- Romanesque
- thick walls, rounded arches, small windows, dark
- Pope Alexander VI
- most controverisal secular Pope of Renaissance
- The Prince
- treatise by Machiavelli on ways to gain, keep and expand power
- Frescoes
- painting done in plaster
- On the False Donation of Constantine
- exposed Church for not curing Constantine's leprosy
- Charles VIII of France
- King of France: invaded Italy
- War of the Roses
- English civil wars between Lancaster and York
- Hermandades
- popular groups in Spanish towns given royal authority to serve as local police forces and as judicial tribunals
- Humanism
- "new learning" of classic Greek and Latin
- Erasmus
- Northern writer of The Praise of Folly
- Spider King
- Louis XI: united the country
- Papal States
- land that the papacy controls
- Francesco Guicciardini
- Italian historian
- The Courtier
- book by Castiglione
- Girolamo Savonarola
- anti-Renaissance man: exposed corruption
- Peace of Lodi
- peace between Italian city states
- Giotto and Masaccio
- early Humanist artists
- Francois Rabelais
- Northern writer of Gargantua
- Patheism
- belief that "God is in everything"
- mannerism
- art style that distorts perspective, etc
- Florence
- city state with Republic: banking
- Vernacular
- literature written in the author's native language
- Moor
- Spanish Muslims from Africa
- Ferdinand and Isabella
- "The Catholic Monarchy"; their marriage united Spain and Castille
- Taille
- direct land tax on peasants
- Guttenburg Bible
- Bible printed by Johanne Gutenburg
- Francesco Petrarch
- wrote poems in vernacular
- Inquisition
- started by Catholic Monarchy to control Catholics in Spain and beyond
- Quattrocento
- cultural and artistic events of Early Renaissance Italy
- Hermeticism
- belief in magic/astronomy
- Gabelle
- tax on salt
- Isabella D' Este
- powerful Queen of Mantua
- Benvenuto Cellini
- Italian sculptor: Renaissance man: self-praising
- Habsburg-Valois Wars
- "Italian Wars" involving at different times most of Europe
- Milan
- city state with Dictatorship: has pass through Alps
- Machiavelli
- wrote The Prince
- Popolo
- disenfranchised people in Italian communes who resented their exclusion from power
- neo-classical
- new classic
- Baroque
- style of art exemplifying drama shown in art
- Charles V
- King of France, took back territory from English
- Lorenzo de Medici
- ended the power of the Medici family because of bad decisions
- Thomas Moore
- Northern Writer of Utopia
- Utopia
- Book by Thomas Moore on perfect world
- Venice
- city state with Republic: shipping center
- Communes
- associations of men in Italian cities who sought political/economic independence from nobles
- Cinquencento
- cultural and artistic events of Late Renaissance Italy
- Naples
- city state with King: agricultural center
- Gothic
- pointed archse, buttresses (supports), light
- Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges
- statement of French king Charles VII asserting royal control over church appointments and the superiority of a general council over the papacy