Renaissance Vocabulary

In the Roman Catholic Church, pardon for sins committed during a person's lifetime

• Indulgences

• Vernacular

• Individualism

• Reformation

The view that religious concerns should be separate from the government.

• Patron

• Secularism

• Realism

• Humanism

A religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches.

• Secularism

• Renaissance

• Mercantilism

• Reformation

Everyday language of ordinary people

• Vernacular

• Realism

• Doctrine

• Simony

The buying and selling of church offices

• Patron

• Indulgences

• Simony

• Mercantilism

Shadows, correct proportions, and liner depth are features in this kind of art

• Secular

• Doctrine

• Realism

• Humanism

a machine for printing text

• Printing Press

• Doctrine

• Mercantilism

• Realism

A set of beliefs taught by the church

• Renaissance

• Realism

• Doctrine

• Indulgences

A person who give financial support to a person, organization, cause, or activity

• Humanism

• Individualism

• Secular

• Patron

An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power

• Mercantilism

• Realism

• Individualism

• Renaissance