Unit 1 Vocabulary Flashcards
Renaissance
“The rebirth” of classical culture that occurred in Italy between 1350 and 1550.
Civic Humanism
An intellectual movement of the Italian Renaissance that saw Cicero (intellectual and statesman)as the ideal and held that Humanists should be involved in government and use their rhetorical training in the service of the state.
Secularism
The process of becoming more concerned with material, worldly, temporal things and less with spiritual and religious things; a characteristic of the Italian Renaissance.
Individualism
Emphasis on and interest in the unique traits of each person.
Italian City-States
Free communes with republican governments.
Nepotism
The appointment of family members to important political positions
Naturalism
The philosophical belief that everything arises from natural events and causes.
Vernacular
The language spoken by people in a certain area.
Hanseatic League
A trade confederation in centeral Europe, originated in Germany and the Baltic Sea.
House of Medici
An Italian Banking family and political dynasty.
Petrarch
An Renaissance scholar who developed Humanism.
Neoplatonism
A revival in the Renaissance associated with Marsalis Ficino, who attempted to synthesize Christianity and Platonism.
Hermeticism
An intellectual movement beginning in the fifteenth century that taught that divinity is embodied in all aspects of nature.
Pantheism
A doctrine that equates God with the universe and all that is in it.
New Monarchies
The governments of France, England, and Spain at the end of the fifteenth century, whose rulers succeeded in reestablishing or extending centralized royal authority, suppressing the nobility, controlling the church and insisting on the loyalty of all peoples living in their territories.
