W.H. Study Guide
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- Erasmus
- wrote texts on many subjects and used his knowledge of classical languaages to produce new Edition of Greek Bible.....Challenged church corruption w/ the Praise of folly by highlighting clergy immoral behavior.....Called for vernacular translation of the Bible
- Farenheit
- firtst thermometer to use mercury in glass.
- Henry VIII
- Catholic King of England, wanted annulment from wife b/c she provided a girl..and tries to change religion of Church
- Renaissance Man
- Leonardo da Vinci....studied mostly everything...and played a big part in renaissance
- Renaissance
- "rebirth" of classical learning...focused on ancient Greece and Rome.........began in italy and spread throughout Europe
- Secular
- having to do with worldly, rather than religious matters
- Hundred Years War
- b/w England and France over french land cont'd
- Hugenots
- french followers of Calvin. Hatred b/w Catholics and hugenots
- Bruegal
- painted scenes of peasent life
- Council of Trent
- helped establish the direction of Catholic Reformation
- Geocentric Theory
- earth was the center of the Universe (Aristotle)
- Petrach
- started a library of classical manuscripts..and helped make works of Cicero, Homer, and Virgil known
- John Knox
- Calvinist preacher who led a religious rebellion, overthrowing the Catholic queen
- Vernacular
- everyday language of ordinary people
- Sir Thomas Moore
- wanted utopia an ideal society, and wanted social, economic reform.
- Isaac Newton
- studied law of universal gravitation, earth and heavens
- Machiavelli
- Wrote the PRINCE- a guide to gain and maintain power
- Predestinaion
- calvinist belief that God long ago determined who would gain salvation
- William Harvey
- discovered circulation of blood
- John Huss
- declared that "Pope didn't have worldly powers" and "Bible had more authority than Church Leaders"
- Leornardo da Vinci
- (Renaissance Art) MONA LISA & LAST SUPPER; Known as Renaissance man-studied corpses, flying machines
- Bubonic Plague
- spread by fleas on rats from increase of trade from Asia to Middle East....many people died b/c of it
- Johann Gutenberg
- developed Printing Press and printed the Bible...books became cheaper, easier to produce and more available..
- Cervantes
- wrote Don Quixote- mocked romantic nations of chivalry
- Castiglione
- wrote "how to book" on how to become Renaissance people "The book of the Courtier"
- Humanism
- an intellectual movement at the heart of the Renaissance that focused on education and the classics
- John Wycliffe
- Reformer....Called for reform in England
- Perspective
- artistic technique used to give paintings and drawings a three dimensional effect
- Edward Jenner
- worlds first vaccination (smallpox vaccination)
- 95 Theses
- formal statement attacking the "pardon-merchants by Martin Luther