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80419581Edward III1338 declared himself rightful heir to French throne, started Hundred Years War
80419583Pope Clement VMoved the Church from Rome to Avignon
80419586John WyclifEnglish theologian whose objections to Roman Catholic doctrine anticipated the Protestant Reformation (1328-1384)
80419587Dante Alighieri) ***An Italian poet of the Middle Ages ***Wrote the Divine Comedy ***
80419588Joan of ArcFrench heroine and military leader inspired by religious visions to organize French resistance to the English and to have Charles VII crowned king
80419592Jan HusCzechoslovakian religious reformer who anticipated the Reformation
80419594Giovanni BoccaccioItalian poet (born in France) (1313-1375)
80419597Watt TylerLeader of the English Peasants' Revolt of 1381
80419598Geoffrey ChaucerAn English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat ***Best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative The Canterbury Tales
80419600Great FamineTime when crops failed, starting with bad weather in spring 1315, -Europe did not fully recover until 1322
80419602Battle of PoitiersFought between the Kingdoms of England and France resulting in the second of the three great English victories of the Hundred Years' War.
80419604BannsThe public announcement in a Christian parish church that a marriage is going to take place between two specified persons
80419605HussitesA Christian movement following the teachings of Czech reformer Jan Hus
80419606Statue of Kilkennylegislation preventing intermarriage and protected 'racial purity'
80419607Hundred Year's WarSeries of battles between England and France over French Territories and dispute over who and how France would be ruled
80419613NationalismThe identification of an ethnic identity with a state, love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
80419614ConciliaristsA reform movement in the 14th and 15th century Roman Catholic Church which held that final authority in spiritual matters resided with the Roman Church as corporation of Christians, embodied by a general church council, not with the pope.
80419615JacqueriePopular revolt in late medieval Europe by peasants that took place in northern France
80419617SecularizationThe transformation of a society from close identification with religious values and institutions toward non-religious (or "irreligious") values
80419619Canterbury TalesA collection of stories written in Middle-English by Geoffrey Chaucer at the end of the 14th century. The tales are told as part of a story-telling contest by a group of pilgrims as they travel together on a journey .
80419620BubaThe boil that resulted from catching the Bubonic Plague, gave the plague its name and caused agonizing pain
80419621Battle of AgincourtThe battle occurred on Friday 25 October 1415 in northern France, battle is notable for the use of the English longbow.
80419622Babylonian CaptivityThe period during which seven Popes resided in Avignon,France rather than Rome
80419623MerchetA fine paid on a marriage during the Middle Ages in England.
80419624LollardsFollowers of John Wycliffe
80419626Great Schism of 1054Divided medieval Christianity into Eastern (Greek) and Western (Latin) branches, which later became known as the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church
80419628AvignonA commune in the Vaucluse department in southeastern France, several popes and antipopes lived from the early 14th to early 15th centuries.
80419629Divine ComedyThe poem describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven; but at a deeper level it represents allegorically the soul's journey towards God
80419636Black Deatha plague that struck Europe in the fourteenth century that killed nearly half of Europe's population. It started in Central Asia and eventually spread to Europe in the stomachs of fleas
80419637bubonic plaguea form of Black Death where the flea was the transmitter of the disease
80419638pneumonic plaguea form of Black Death where the plague was transferred directly from one person to another
80419639flagellantsgroups of people who inflicted physical harm on themselves as penance for society's sins, believing that the plague was God's punishment
80419640RenaissanceAlso known as the "rebirth", the activity, spirit, or time of the great revival of art, literature, and learning in Europe beginning in the 14th century and extending to the 17th century.
80419641popoloitalian underclass
80419642oligarchyThis is the rule of government by a few
80419645Lorenzo De Medici, "The Magnificent"Was a ruler of the Florentine Republic during the Italian Renaissance,. Known as Lorenzo the Magnificient, he was a dipolmat, politian, artist and poet.
80419646quattrocentoThe 1400's. the 15th century in Italian art and literature. Florence was the leading city in this movement.
80419647cinquescentoThe 1500's or 16 th Century , Rome leader of Renaissance art and thought
80419650War of the RosesThis was a civil conflict in England between the ducal house of Lancaster and the ducal house of York.
80419652Henry VIIThe first Tudor king that worked to establish a strong monarchical government and ended the private wars of nobles in England.
80419653Court of Star ChamberEstablished by Henry VII, it enforced torture to be used to force nobles to confess for something.
80419654Ferdinand of AragonHe married Isabella of Castile to form a union for Spain (though they were never politically united). He and Isabella worked together to form a strong infantry army in Spain.
80419655GranadaThe Muslim kingdom that Spain later conquested.
80419656HabsburgThis dynasty became the Holy Roman emperor after 1438. It became one of the wealthiest landholders in the world.
80419658ReichstagThe imperial diet or parliament of the Holy Roman Empire.
80419659Byzantine EmpireIt served as a buffer between the Muslim middle East and the Latin west.
80419661Leonardo Da VinciItalian painter, engineer, scientist. The most versatile genius of the renaissance. Mona Lisa
80419662RaphaelStudent of Michelangelo's; figures are soft and reflect inner beauty; Madonna and child series; fattened and ezaggerated his paintings.
80419663perspectiveBy making distant objects smaller than those close to the viewer and using shading artists could paint scenes that looked three dimentional.
80419664chiaroscuroThe treatment of light and shade in a work of art, especially to give an illusion of depth.
80419665Michelangeloartist, worked in rome, the main characteristics of high renaissance are shown in his work
80419666Pope Nicholas VCollected thousands of manuscripts and planned the Vatican library.
80419667Christian Humanismis the belief that human freedom and individualism are compatible with the practice of Christianity or intrinsic in its doctrine.
80419668Thomas Morewrote Utopia- an English lawyer, author, and statesman who wrote Utopia, which describes the political arrangements of the imaginary island country of Utopia.
80419669ErasmusDutch Renaissance humanist and Christian theologian who wrote in a "pure" Latin style.
80419671Jan Van EyckFlemish painter who was a founder of the Flemish school of painting and who pioneered modern techniques of oil painting (1390-1441)
80419672Jerome (Hieronymus) BoschAn eccentric Dutch painter of religious visions who dealt in particular with the torments of hell.
80419674SecularismThe emphasis on the here and-now rather than on the spiritual and otherworldly.
80419683Conversos/New ChristiansJewish people of Spain who were forced by King Ferdinand to convert to Christianity.
80419684Hermandades"Brotherhoods"; popular groups in the towns given authority to act as local police forces and as judicial tribunals.
80419685InquisitionFerdinand and Isabella ordered the establishment of tribunals to "search out and punish converts from Judaism who had transgressed against Christianity by secretly adhering to Jewish beliefs and performing rites of the Jews."
80419686Lancaster and YorkTwo aristocratic houses of England who fought for the English throne in the War of the Roses.
80419688Tudor dynastyHenry VII gained power and ended wars of nobility/"livery and maintenence". Established Courty of Star Chamber that tortured nobles.
80419689ReconquistaReferred to the wars of the northern Christian kings fought in order to control the entire peninsula, some of the religious objectives were to convert and expel the Muslims and Jews.
80419692Niccolo MachiavelliPolitics, Author of "The Prince" who advocated "better to be feared then loved but not hated" writer, works w/ gov't, power, & instability "the ends justifies the means"
81040924fur collar crimenobles who robbed the peasants through the use of their power
81040925simonyThe selling of church offices.
81040926indulgencespardon sold by catholic church to reduce one's punishment
81040927excommunicationThe taking away of a person's right of membership in a Christian church
81040928interdictpopes excluding an entire town, region, or kingdom from participating in sacraments and from receiving Christian burial
81041247heresyan opinion different from accepted belief

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