Chp 12- The Renaissance
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- Johannes Gutenberg
- German printer; in 1448 he invented a printing press that used movable type
- Lorenzo Medici
- Ruler of Florence during the Renaissance and patron of artists such as Michelangelo
- Michelangelo
- Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, and poet; Sistine Chapel, sculptor "David" architect
- William Shakespeare
- English dramatist and poet; considered one of the greatest writers in the English language
- Petrarch
- Italian Renaissance poet and humanist; poet who studied and praised the classics
- humanism
- An idea important to the Renaissance that focused on human values and what people can achieve in this world
- Leonardo Da Vinci
- painter of "Mona Lisa" scientist, engineer, sculptor, architect: wrote backwards. Experimented with submarine, parachute, flight
- Queen Elizabeth I
- Queen of England from 1558-1603; the English Renaissance flourished during her reign
- Protestantism
- The beliefs of Christians who opposed, or protested against, the Roman Catholic Church in the 1500s; the beliefs of people who follow a Protestant religion today
- Florence
- A city in present-day Italy. one of the great centers of Renaissance art
- Erasmus
- Dutch writer and humanist; he favored reform of the Catholic Church but came to oppose the Protestant Reformation
- patron
- A supporter of the arts
- indulgence
- A pardon or forgiveness given by the Roman Catholic Church to people who act against Christian teachings
- Martin Luther
- German monk and leader of the Protestant Reformation
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Polish astronomer; in 1514 he discovered that Earth and the other planets revolve around the sun
- King Henry VIII
- King of England from 1509-1547 and founder of the Church of England; he broke with the Catholic Church because the pope would not grant him a divorce
- Renaissance
- A period of great cultural and artistic change that began in Italy around 1350 and spread throughout Europe; rebirth of classical periods of Greece and Rome
- armada
- A fleet of warships.
- reform
- to change
- Reformation
- A movement beginning in Europe in the 1500s, to bring reform to the Roman Catholic Church, and leading to Protestantism