Renaissance Vocab

This was a great cultural revival that swept through Europe from the 1300s-1500s. The term renaissance is French for “rebirth.”

• Dark Ages

• Renaissance

• Middle Ages

• Industrial Age

Someone who gives up money or other support to a person or group.

• Patron

• beggar

• tax collector

• serf

A cultural movement of the Renaissance based on the study of classical works. To humanists, learning led to a better earthly life rather that serving solely as preparation for eternity.

• Individualism

• Secularism

• Humanism

The view that religion need not be the center of human affairs.

• Secularism

• Humanism

• Individualism

The belief that the individual was more important that the larger community.

• Individualism

• Secularism

• Humanism

Using moveable type, this invention allowed books to be copied much faster and cheaper.

• Printing Press

• Olive Press

• Johann Gutenberg

This term relates to trade or buisness

• Mercantile

• Mechanical

• Multiplier

A mathematical system for representing three-dimensional space on a flat surface.

• Linear Perspective

• Ocular Perspective

• Binocular Perspective

Famous English playwright who lived during the Renaissance. He wrote 37 plays. He also wrote poems.

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• William Tell

• William Shakespeare

• Sir Robin of Locksley

A term for the everyday spoken language of the people.

• Greek

• Latin

• Vernacular

• Linguist