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736596379What does ecclesiastical mean?of or relating to the Christian Church (or its clergy)-- clerical
736596380What are benefices?church offices
736596381What is the laity?ordinary people -- not the clergy
732800511What is simony?the buying or selling of ecclesiastical privileges (church offices)
732800512What is nepotismthe practice among those with power or influence of favoring relatives, friends, etc., especially by giving them jobs
732800513What is pluralism?when high churchmen held several benefices at the same time
736596382What is absenteeism?when high churchmen appointed to church offices rarely attended to the duties of the position appointed or didn't at all-- goes hand in hand with pluralism-- Cardinals took office and often appointed a poor parish priest to minister to the people, then paid him a pittance while they themselves raked in large sums of money from the church tax.
732800514When did criticism of the abusive practices of the Catholic church mount?the sixteenth century
732800515What are indulgences?the remission of temporal punishment due for sins (paying to not be punished for sins)
732800516What specific action of the Church angered Luther and led to the religious split in western Christendom?the sale of indulgences by Tetzel
732800517What were the ninety-five theses?posted by Martin Luther in protest of clerical abuses, especially the sale of indulgences
732800518What was the Diet of Worms?Series of imperial meetings at the bishop's palace at Worms in the Rhineland where Luther defended his doctrines before the emperor Charles V. On 18 April Luther declared his final refusal to recant those doctrines, and on 26 May Charles V issued an imperial Edict condemning those doctrines
732800519What was the Peace of Augsburg?An agreement between Charles V and an alliance of Lutheran princes which enabled the princes to choose either Lutheranism or Catholicism as the practiced religion in their respective lands. Weakened the power of the Holy Roman Emperor and strengthened that of the nobility
732800520What is Calvinism?major branch of Christianity-- follows practice of John Calvin--- broke with the Roman Catholic Church but differed with Lutherans on the real presence of Christ in the Lord's supper, theories of worship, and God's law, etc.
732800521What is predestination?the idea that eternal salvation is determined by omniscient, omnipotent, and inscrutable God
732800522What was the Council of Trent?a meeting of Catholic clergy designed to reform the Church and try to secure reconciliation with Protestants
732800523Who were the Jesuits?extreme Catholics
732800524Who led the Jesuits?Ignatius Loyola
732800525What was the Inquisition?Roman Catholic Church "fighting against heretics" Spanish -established by Ferdinand and Isabella (maintain Catholic orthodoxy)
732800526what was the index?a list of prohibited books by the Church
732800527Who was Caravaggio?Italian artist contrast, dramatic lighting, baroque WORKS: Judith Beheading Holofernes
732800528Who was Bernini?Italian artist and prominent architect created the Baroque style of sculpture WORKS: St. Peter's colonade ; Ecstasy of St. Theresa ; Apollo and Daphne
732800529Who was Rubens?prolific Flemish baroque painter emphasized movement, color, and sensuality counter-reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, allegorical/mythological subjects WORKS: The Massacre of the Innocents ; Venus ; The Judgment of Paris
732800530Who was El Greco?painter, sculptor, and architect of the Spanish Renaissance Not concerned with classicist criteria (proportion), more concerned with grace and intuition and imagination Regarded color as the most important element of painting
732800531What is baroque?style of EXAGGERATED motion, drama, tension, exuberance, grandeur
732800532Who was beheaded for refusing to acknowledge publicly Henry VIII's supremacy and not approving of his divorce and marriage?Sir Thomas More
732800533Who coined the term "Renaissance"?Giorgio Vasari
732800534What were the "isms" of the Renaissance?rationalism, secularism, individualism, and humanism
732800535What were condottieri?mercenary soldiers
732800536Who was Michelangelo?Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, engineer David, The Creation of Adam, Pieta, Sistine Chapel ceiling
732800537Who was Benvenuto Cellini?Italian goldsmith, sculptor, and painter important artist of Mannerism WORKS: Perseus with the Head of Medusa ; Saliera ;
732800538What work is Castiglione known for?The Courtier
732800539What work is Machiavelli known for?The Prince
732800540Who was da Vinci?Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, botanist, writer WORKS: The Last Supper ; Mona Lisa ; Vitruvian Man ; Lady with an Ermine
732800541Who was Raphael?prolific Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance work admired for clarity of form and ease of composition WORKS: The School of Athens ; The Coronation of the Virgin ; Deposition of Christ
732800542Who was Botticelli?Italian painter under patronage of Lorenzo de Medici WORKS: Birth of Venus ; Primavera ; Venus and Mars
732800543Who was Lorenzo Valla?Italian humanist, rhetorician, and educator best known for textual analysis that proved the Donation of Constantine was a forgery
732800544Who wrote Praise of Folly?Erasmus
732800545Who wrote Utopia?Thomas More
736596383How educated were the clergy?Although the Church had standard of education, bishops didn't enforce them Parish priests were less educated than the educated laity Many priests couldn't read or write and mumbled Latin words they didn't know
736596384What horrified humanists most about the Church?Clerical ignorance
736596385What was the catalyst for the Protestant Reformation?The Ninety-Five Theses
736596386What is transubstantiation?belief that in the Eucharist, the substance of the bread and wine used in sacrament is LITERALLY changed into the substance of the body and blood of Jesus
736596387What is consubstantiation?belief that during the sacrament the fundamental "substance" of the body and blood of Christ are present alongside the substance of the bread and wine, which remain present
736596388Examples of the baroque style?Rubens, Bernini, Barocci (painting/sculpture/architecture) Bach and Handel (music)
736691328What was Decameron?documents life in 14th century Italy by Boccaccio criticizes the churchmen
736691329What were the Canterbury Tales?Criticism of the Church through stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer
736691330The Imitation of Christ was written by whom?Thomas a Kempis
736691331What was The Imitation of Christ?urged readers to use the life of Christ as the perfect example of Christian living (Medieval WWJD) by Kempis
736691332Who was Zwingli?scholar and preacher who moved to zurich led the movement in the Swiss Confederation
736691333Who was Johann Tetzel?German preacher known for selling indulgences condemned (later pardoned) for immorality Martin Luther preached openly against him
736691334What was the Book of Common Prayer?A product of the English Reformation-- prayer book
736691335What was the Book of Concord?doctrinal standard of the Lutheran Church
736691336What was the Schmalkaldic League?defensive alliance of Lutheran princes within the Holy Roman Empire during the mid-16th century, included an army
736691337What was the League of Torgau?set up soon after the Imperial Diet of Speyer-- alliance of Protestant princes but was unsuccessful because it didn't have a substantial army
736691338What was the Exsurge Domine?issued by Pope Leo X-- response to Martin Luther, threatened to excommunicated Luther unless he recanted within a 60 day period
736691339What is a papal bull?charter/letter issued by a Pope of the Catholic Church
736691340What was Luther's response to Exsurge Domine?He refused to recant and burned a copy of it publicly
736691341What was the Concordat of Worms?precursor to the Treaty of Westphalia and nation-based sovereignty agreement between Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V brought an end to the first phase of the power struggle between the Papacy and the Holy Roman Emperors
736691342What is the Corps Reformatorum?large collection of Reformation writings contains works of Calvin, Zwingli, and Melanchthon.
736691343Who was Philip Melanchthon?Protestant reformer, collaborator with Martin Luther
736691344Who was Menno Simons?An Anabaptist religious leader from the Friesland region of the Low Countries. Contemporary of the Protestant Reformers Followers became known as MENNONITES
736691345Michelangelo's David was made of what?Marble
736691346Donatello's David was made of what?Bronze
736691347Who is the "father of humanism"?Petrarch
736691348Who discovered perspective?Brunelleschi
736691349Who engineered the dome of the Florence Cathedral?Brunelleschi
736691350Who created the bronze doors of the Baptistry of Florence Cathedral (the gates of paradise)?Ghiberti
736691351Who wrote Commentari?Ghiberti
736691352Dante wrote what major work?The Divine Comedy
736691353Who wrote Oration on the Dignity of Man (a humanist text)?Pico della Mirandola
736691354What has been called the "Manifesto of the Renaissance"?Oration on the Dignity of Man
736707589Who was Alberti?He was best known as an Italian architect but also was an author, artist, poet, priest, linguist, and philosopher. wrote On Painting which contained the first scientific study of perspective
736707590The Peasant Wedding is by whom?Pieter Brueghel the Elder
736707591What is mannerism?art period/style elongated proportions, highly stylized poses, lack of clear perspective tension and instability EXAMPLE: Bronzino's "Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time"

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