Unit 1 Vocabulary

a period of European history, lasting from about 1300-1600, during which renewed interest in classical culture led to far-reaching changes in art, learning, and views of the world

• Renaissance

• Reformation

• patron

• Protestant

a Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements

• Patron

• Secular

• Humanism

• Perspective

concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters

• Perspective

• Vernacular

• Secular

• Indulgence

a person who supports artists, especially financially

• Protestant

• Lutheran

• Annul

• patron

an artistic technique that creates the appearance of three dimensions on a flat surface

• Jesuits

• Indulgence

• Utopia

• Perspective

the everyday language of people in a region or country

• Vernacular

• Reformation

• Patron

• Indulgence

an imaginary land described by Thomas More – an ideal place

• Humanism

• Peace of Augsburg

• Vernacular

• Utopia

a pardon releasing a person from punishments due for a sin

• Indulgence

• Patron

• Council of Trent

• Annul

a 16th century movement for religious reform, leading to the founding of Christian churches that rejected the pope’s authority

• Renaissance

• Reformation

• Council of Trent

• Peace of Augsburg

a member of a Protestant church founded on the teachings of Martin Luther

• Jesuits

• Humanism

• Protestant

• Lutheran