Renaissance and Reformation Review

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Renaissance and ReformationReview
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Renaissance

• Renaissance was renewed interest in these classic
  cultures?
• Greco-Roman (Greece and Rome) literature and
  life
• People who wanted more meaning in life and
  studied peoples lives and activities
• Humanists
• First humanist, wrote sonnets
• Petrarch
• Sonnets have this many lines
• 14 lines (8 6)
• He wrote a political theory book on how to
  govern, better feared than loved
• Machiavelli
• Machiavellis book was
• The Prince
• Classical education included this major category
• Seven liberal arts Grammar, dialogue,
  philosophy, math, geometry, astronomy and music
• Superstition, mystery and magic declined as this
  area improved
• Reality based on understanding through science,
  math, reason (logic or thought)

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Renaissance

• He wrote a book about courtly life and behaving
  like a gentleman
• Castiglione
• The Renaissance Courtier should have this type of
  education
• Well rounded seven liberal arts, understand
  weapons, horses, poetry and art
• Techniques used by renaissance artists created
• Depth, 3 D, perspective lines of convergence,
  light and shadow, shading
• associated with Sistine Chapel, David
• Michelangelo
• Associated with Last Supper Mona Lisa
• Da Vinci
• Associated with School of Athens and lots of
  Madonna paintings
• Rafael, Raphael
• He invented the west version of the moveable type
  printing press
• Gutenberg
• Popular books with recipes, maps, advice, weather
  forecasts
• Almanacs
• First newspapers, large prints of one page with
  todays news
• Broadsides, broadsheets

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Renaissance and Reformation

• Most famous Play write and author of sonnets
• Shakespeare
• Flemish painter of country, simple life
• Breughel
• Patrons of Northern Renaissance (class of people)
• Nobility emphasis on Christian spiritual
  renewal
• Patrons of Italian Renaissance
• City states Milan, Genoa, Venice, Rome Catholic
  Church), Naples
• Major causes of the Renaissance
• Crusades, fall of Constantinople, wealth in
  Northern Italy
• The Renaissance City with the white ribbed, red
  tiled dome
• Florence
• Major impact of the printing press
• More books at less cost, rise in literacy, spread
  of ideas and science

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Renaissance and Reformation

• Belief that the elect have already been chosen,
  saved
• Predestination
• He set up model society in Geneva
• Calvin
• People who followed Calvins ideas in France
• Huguenots
• People who followed Calvins ideas England
• Puritans - add get rid of Catholic practices,
  rituals
• Henry VIII clash with the Pope led to this Church
• Anglican or Church of England similar to Roman
  Catholic Church
• Henry VIIIs first wife
• Catherine of Aragon (Spain)
• Henry VIIIs 2nd wife wanted to marry her for
  the son
• Anne Boleyn
• Henry VIIIs eldest daughter who tried to return
  England to Catholicism
• Mary I (Tudor) Bloody Mary

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• Certificates of forgiveness of sins less
  purgatory
• Indulgences
• He penned the 95 theses anger over sale of
  indulgences
• Luther
• According to Luther all authority comes from this
• Bible
• According to Luther this gets into heaven
• Faith alone

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Renaissance and Reformation

• First act or document of religious toleration
• Edict of Nantes Huguenots - ???
• Term for Roman Catholic Churchs revival to bring
  back the crowd dissenters
• Counter reformation
• Spain used this to try heretics, punish
• Inquisition
• This body reaffirmed Catholic beliefs
• Council of Trent
• New Religious Order Education, Missionary
• Jesuits
• Belief in adult baptism, pacifist, no oaths
• anabaptists