Ch. 14B Vocab. Flashcards
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113633616 | Da Vinci | One of the best examples of a Renaissance man. He painted, wrote, sculpted, invented, among his philosophical ideas | 0 | |
113633617 | Flying Buttress | A free-standing support attached to the main vessel (nave, choir, or transept wall) by an arch or half-arch which transmits the thrust of the vault to the support attached tot he outer wall of the aisle | 1 | |
113633618 | Scholasticism | A philosophical and theological system, associated with Thomas Aquinas, devised to reconcile Aristotelian philosophy and Roman Catholic theology in the thirteenth century | 2 | |
113633619 | Humanists | European scholars, writers, and teachers associated with the study of the humanities (grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history, languages, and moral philosophy), influential in the fifteenth century and later | 3 | |
113633620 | Gutenberg printing press | biggest factor in emergence of Renaissance and Reformation; 1445; important because of Renaissance's interest in classical texts, Humanist learning (secular, non-church sanctioned) and the Protestant Reformation (Bibles in vernacular languages) | 4 | |
113633621 | Great Western Schism | A division in the Latin (Western) Christian Church between 1378 and 1417, when rival claimants to the papacy existed in Rome and Avignon | 5 | |
113633622 | Hundred Years War | the series of wars between England and France, 1337-1453, in which England lost all its possessions in France except Calais | 6 | |
113633623 | Medici | aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century | 7 | |
113633624 | Fuggers | House of, was given a monopoly over silver, copper, and mercury mines in Habsburg possesion by Charles V. However, they soon went bankrupt | 8 | |
113633625 | Luther | The founder of Protestantism whose religion, based on 95 Theses, rejected Catholic orthodoxy, the sale of indulgences, and papal authority | 9 | |
113633626 | Divine Comedy | an Italian poet famous for writing the Divine Comedy that describes a journey through hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321)/Long poem by Dante Alighieri, about a imaginary journey to places where Christians believed souls went in afterlife | 10 | |
113633627 | Reconquest | christian princes drove Muslims southward and established a feudal state throughout the Iberian peninsula | 11 |