Renaissance Unit Flashcards
Where did the Renaissance begin?
Florence, Italy
What helped Florence become so wealthy?
The Medici Family (banking faami
Patronage
The rich flaunting their wealth before the public
Humanism
Seeing that humans should be praised and valued just as much as Gods
Leonardo Da Vinci
Sculptor, Painter, scientist ect. The “Mona Lisa” & “The Last Supper”.
Donatello
Sculptor. “David”
Raphael
Painter. “The School of Athens”
Michelangelo
Sculptor, Painter. “The Sistine Chapel” & “David”
Erasmus
Critical view of church
Wrote the Praise of Folly
Wanted people to read the Bible and lead a clean simple life
& “laid the eggs that Martin Luther will hatch”
The Crusades (effects)
“Holy Wars”
Effects: The RRC had and increase in wealth, & the power of the Pope was elevated
The Plauge (& effects)
Fleas on Rats
Effects: People started to question the Church… which lead to the Renaissance
Renassiance
“Rebirth”
Machiavelli (known for and wrote what?)
“saver to be feared than loved”
The Prince
Secular
not subject to or bound by religious rule
Reformation
a religious “reform” movement
Causes of Reformation:
Church corruptions
unhappy merchants paying taxes for the churches
& printing press
Printing Press
1439 by Johann Gutenberg in Mainz, Germany
Martin Luther
-Catholic monk & professor @ uni. of Wittenberg (lectures the Bible)
-Stapled “95 Thesis” on the Wittenberg Church door on October 31, 1517.
-didn’t agree with indulgences
Indulgences
paying to rid oneself of sins
Pope Leo X
Luther gets excommunicated
heretic
a person who has a negative opinion about the teaching of the Catholic church
Emperor Charles V
“Edict of Worms”, which banned Luther’s writings, claimed his as a heretic & enemy of the state
Prince Fredrick
-kidnaps Luther to hide him in his castle from anyone who wanted to kill him
-translates the Bible to German
Martin Luther established what religion ?
Lutheranism