This site is 100% ad supported. Please add an exception to adblock for this site.

Reniassance Review

exam review

Terms

undefined, object
copy deck
Petrarch
"Father of Humanism;" he studied Classical Greek and Latin as well as introduced the concept of emotion in his "Sonnets to Laura"
Leonardo Bruni
Wrote the New Cicero, identified "Classical Latin" as well as the foundations for civic humanism
Charles the Bold
He controlled Burgandy until Louis XI allowed the Swiss to invade and in the process he was killed, and his land went to France
Cosimo de Medici
controled Florence was a member of a wealthy family who ran the city-state government
1527
Sack of Rome by Charles V
Council of Constance
brought an end to the Great Schism, tried to deal with the heresy problem by burning John Hus, caused the Hussite wars
Pope Pius
Who declared Angela a saint?
Third estate
Peasants and inhabitants of towns and cities.
Medici family
Controlled Florence and were one of the richest families in Italy., dominated Florence; acquired wealth through Florence's major industry: banking
Bruges
a city in northwestern Belgium
Maximillian I
Tried to centralize government but failed. In constant conflict with German Imperial Diet Reichstag. Success came through marriages of his children.
Francis I
French king of the Valois dynasty who was involved in the Italian wars, was defeated by Charles I
Babylonian Captivity
French King stole the Papacy in 1300's. (French wanted a pope so they made one)
Pope Alexander Vi
member of the Borgia family, encouraged his son Cesare to carve a state for himself in central Italy out of the territories of the Papal States
Ivan III
made Moscow the new capital of Russia and he overthrew the Mongols that were dominating Russia.
Excrabilis
Pope Pius II issued it to help end the Conciliar Movement to reform the Church.
Reichstag
Holy Roman Empire imperial diet, lords and German princes dominate
Lollardy
called for Church Reforms; heavily influenced by the earlier writing of John Wycliffe; these writings illustrated disgust agains the Catholic Church and called for religious writers to use the vernacular
Machiavelli
said. "It is much saferto be feared then loved", wrote the Prince
John Wyclif
He was the leader of the Lollardy movement that attacked papal authority, and he rejected and condemned all practices not mentioned in the scripture., English theologian whose objections to Roman Catholic doctrine anticipated the Protestant Reformation (1328-1384)
1453
Ottoman Empire ended the Byzantine Empire by capturing the city of Constantinople; threatened western Europe in the 1500's because it came into conflict with the HRE named Charles V
Great Schism
A period of division within the Catholic Church in which there was a pope and an antipope
Artisans
Skilled crafts worker
Dowry
money or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
Ferdinand and Isabella
1469- got marrieda nd united two most powerful spanish kingdoms: Castile and Aragon; Reconwuista and Granada(Moores); they want to creat a united nation state; Reconwuista ends in 1492 and Granada becomes part of Spain; Inquisition(1492): movement used to get rid of Muslims and Jews:(, gave Jews three choices- leave, convert, or die; ignorence of modern age; killed merchents and were forced to rely on Lords; "divided kingdom" two money's, laws, parliaments...
Alexander VI
(1492-1503) Corrupt Spanish pope. He was aided militarily and politically by his son Cesare Borgia, who was the hero of The Prince.
Cesare Borgia
younger son of Pope Alexander VI, prototype of Niccolò Machiavelli's Prince —intelligent, cruel, treacherous, and ruthlessly opportunistic
Henry VII
(1485-1509) English king, nicknamed the "Burgher king," won the War of the Roses against Richard III, established the Tudor dynasty, ended Livery and Maintenance, established the Court of Star Chamber
Taille
An annual direct tax usually on land or property.
Renaissance slavery
used because the Black Death had made open jobs that could not be filled by skilled workers. Also, the slaves were used by the rich only.
Polish Sejm
POLISH DIET
Sforza
duke of Milan, invited Charles VIII to invade Italy
Gutenberg
German printer who was the first in Europe to print using movable type and the first to use a press (1400-1468)
Lorenzo de Valla
wrote "The Elegance of the Latin Language", attempted to purify original Latin. Retranslated the "Donation of Constantine" and figured out it was a forgery
Richard III
He was the last king from the House of York, and his defeat at the Battle of Bosworth marked the culmination of the Wars of the Roses
First estate
The clergy, who believed that people should be guided to spiritual ends
Christendom
United Western Europe under auithority of the Catholic Church
John Hus
called for elimination of worldliness and corruption. Council of Constance ended with Great Schism, not good for Him.Hus was then burned at stake.
Alberti
He penned the slogan of the age when he stated "Men can do all things if they will."
Charles VII
After The Hundred Years War, he worked with the Estates-General to estabish a royal army and to levy taille.
Heresy
An opinion or doctrine subversive of settled beliefs or accepted principles.
Second estate
The nobility, whose privaliges were based on the principle that they provide security and justice for society
Julius II
"warrior-pope" that was mostly involved in war and politics.
Leo X
the pope who excommunicated Martin Luther and who in 1521 bestowed on Henry VIII the title of Defender of the Faith (1475-1521), A Medici. Best known for Renaissance culture.
Charles VIII
invited by Sforza to invade Florence, started Italian Wars
Reconquista
The Reconquering of Spain from the Muslims in 1492 by Ferdinand and Isabella. This unified Spain into a powerful nation-state.
Ottoman Empire
Centered in Constantinople, the Turkish imperial state that conquered large amounts of land in the Middle East, North Africa, and the Balkans, and fell after World War I.
Treaty of Lodi
This created an alliance in Italy between Milan, Naples, and Florence vs. the Papal States and Venice. It was is in effect from 1454 and 1494.
Hanseatic league
Nothern german coastal towns fomed a commercial and military association, This was formed by merchants in the 1200's by North German coastal towns .It continued to prosper even during the plague. They had a monopolies in timber, fish, grain, metals, honey, and wines.
Social structure
Basicallly the same structure from the middle ages
Lorenzo de Medici
The Magnificent. He and his grandfather, Cosimo successfully became dominant over Florence when it became center of Renaissance, through courting of political allies.
Spanish Inquisition
used to remove Jews and Moors from Spain, but most of people killed were merchants
Byzantine Empire
Historians' name for the eastern portion of the Roman Empire from the fourth century onward, taken from 'Byzantion,' an early name for Constantinople, the Byzantine capital city. The empire fell to the Ottomans in 1453. (250)
Hermeticism
Belief that human beings had been created as divine creative power, but had freely chosen to enter the material world, created by Ficino who was commissioned by Cosimo de Medici
Jacob Burckhardt
wrote "Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy" created the modern concept of the Renaissance
Liberal Studies
a set of educational subjects that provides a path of virtue and wisdom
Charles V
A Habsburg emperor who inherited Spain, the Netherlands, Southern Italy, Austria, and much of the Holy Roman Emperor from his grandfather Maximilian I.
Guilds
Association of merchants or artisans who cooperated to protect their economic interests

Deck Info

58

permalink