Renaissance Vocabulary

Renaissance cultural movement which turned away from medieval scholasticism

• humanism

• reformation

• Protestantism

• secularism

the principle of separation of the state from religious institutions

• humanism

• reformation

• secularism

• protestantism

the faith, practice, and church order of the Protestant Churches

• humanism

• secularism

• reformation

• Protestantism

the start of Protestantism and the split of the Western Church into Protestantism and what is now the Roman Catholic Church

• humanism

• reformation

• secularism

• Protestantism

mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium thereby transferring the ink

• printing press

• patron

• indulgence

• vernacular

series of events that marked the emergence of modern science during the early modern period

• Protestantism

• reformation

• scientific revolution

• Humanism

the buying or selling of church offices, roles, pardons, or benefits

• indulgence

• simony

• Printing Press

• Protestantism

In Catholicism, it is the commutation for money as part of the temporal penalty due for sin

• communion

• reformation

• simony

• indulgence

an Italian scholar of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect

• Raphael

• Donatello

• Leonardo da Vinci

• Michelangelo

the language or dialect spoken by the ordinary people in a particular country or region

• Vernacular

• Simony

• Hyperbole

• Metaphor