Unit 3: Age of Religious Wars and Reformation Flashcards
Relic
Sacred item which can bless people.
Gentile Bellini’s “Procession of the True Cross in Piazza San Marco, Venice”
Pro-religious sentiment, people loved religion, questioned the church.
Anti-clericalism
Outcry against the church’s abuse of power.
Church abuse of buying church offices and profiting off of donations and services.
Simony
Granting church offices to relatives
Nepotism
Holding multiple religious offices.
Pluralism
Being absent from their offices while still profiting from it.
Absenteeism
Ignoring the Bible (illiteracy)
Ignorance
Committing sins like drinking, gambling, and having prostitutes while preaching against those sins.
Immorality
Church officials being exempt from civic duties
Immunities
Encouraging people to pay to get into heaven, starting during the crusades to convince Christians that it was fine to kill Muslims.
Indulgences