Renaissance Vocab

Definition: a rebirth or revival

• Renaissance

• Secular

• Humanism

• Reformation

Definition: Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters

• recant

• annul

• perspective

• secular

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

• secular

• rationalism

• humanism

• heliocentric

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

• frescoes

• rationalism

• perspective

• renaissance

A belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief

• recant

• humanism

• rationalism

• geocentric

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

• reformation

• renaissance

• printing press

• indulgences

A pardon given by the Roman Catholic Church in return for repentance for sins

• indulgence

• frescoes

• 95 theses

• annul

to withdraw a statement or belief to which one has previously been committed, renounce, retract

• annul

• recant

• humanism

• secular

Protestants

• a Christian who protested against the Catholic Church

• An organization of priests in Spain that looked for and punished anyone suspected of secretly practicing their old religion instead of Roman Catholicism.

• The great fleet sent from Spain against England by Philip II in 1588; defeated by the terrible winds and fire ships.

• A city with political and economic control over the surrounding countryside

Annul

• declare invalid

• to withdraw a statement or belief to which one has previously been committed, renounce, retract

• a period of prolonged and intensive questioning or investigation.

• an opinion different from accepted belief; the denial of an idea that is generally held sacred