Topic 15 Vocabulary

French for "rebirth"; refers to a period of cultural revival in Europe from the 1300's to the 1500's

• Renaissance
• engraving
• rationalism
• heliocentric theory

A kind of cancellation of punishment for sin.

• vernacular
• annulment
• indulgence
• movable type

to ban dangerous or offensive ideas, or remove material from published works, or prevent its publication

• ghetto
• linear perspective
• censor
• edict

A format of printmaking, in which individual letters formed in metal could be used again and again.

• vernacular
• annulment
• indulgence
• movable type

everyday spoken language

• vernacular
• annulment
• indulgence
• movable type

The belief that knowledge is gained by thinking things through using reason.

• Renaissance
• engraving
• rationalism
• heliocentric theory

an official act ending marriage

• vernacular
• annulment
• indulgence
• movable type

the idea that God had long ago determined who would gain salvation

• predestination
• sonnet
• satire
• proportion

separate section of a city where members of a minority group are forced to live

• ghetto
• linear perspective
• censor
• edict

work of literature that makes fun of its subject, often mocking vice or folly

• predestination
• sonnet
• satire
• proportion