histort

jerome

church leader who translated the vulgate

john wycliffe

teacher who challenged the Roman church and translated the Bible to english

john huss

teacher who agreed with wycliffe, burned at the stake

augustine

bishop, wrote the city of Godand the confessions

aristotle

the philosopher

dantle

wrote divine comedy

chaucer

wrote Canterbury tales

henry the flower

power duke, started saxon line of kings

otto the great

crowned '“emperor of the Romans: by the pope begging the holy Roman empire

(962

michelangelo

master sculplter, david statue, painted ceiling of Sistine chapel

raphael

known for brilliant color use I paintings , known for the Sistine madonna and the school of athens

leonardo di vinchi

painter, sculpter, inventer, engineer who painted Mona Lisa and the last supper

Brunelleschi

Dome of Florence Cathdral; founded Linear Perspective

Machiavelli:

 author of The Prince

Medici family

 patrons of the Renaissance

Johannes Gutenberg

 inventor of the printing press

monasticism:

 withdraw from society to live in solitude 

Eucharist:

 Catholic name for “The Lord’s Supper”

transubstantiation

Catholic belief that the bread and wine actually turn into Jesus’s flesh and blood

saints

dead people recognized by the church as holy

indulgences:

certificates from pope to excuse a person from penance and shorten purgatory

penance:

 punishment/atonement for sin

purgatory

place where repentant sinners had to stay after death to serve punishment

Lollards

Wycliffe’s followers

Hussites:

Huss’s followers

cardinals

priests of the church or bishops of church close to Rome

Inquisition:

a special church court with power to inquire about and judge matters of heresy

Renaissance Man:

intellectual who displays his talents in all fields

Renaissance

 means “rebirth”: followed Middle Ages; movement that centered on revival of different learning fields: art, architecture, science, mathematics, etc. 

Humanism:

interest in the subject of humanities

The Black Death:

bubonic plague, wiped out ⅓ of the population, through rats, fleas, humans along trade routes

Patrons:

financially supported the arts

Printing Press:

 able to mass produce literature, newspaper, etc.