Ren Vocab

Renaissance

• 1. In 1450, he was able to create a printing press with movable type

• 1.  the everyday speech of the people ( as distinguished from literary language)

• 1. The great period of rebirth in art, literature, and learning in the 14th-16th centuries, which marked the transition into the modern periods of European history 

• 1.  a pardon releasing a person from priestly-imposed punishments due for a sin 

Indulgence

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

• 1. a pardon releasing a person from priestly-imposed punishments due for a sin 

• a book by Sir Thomas More (1516) describing the perfect society on an imaginary island

• 1. In 1450, he was able to create a printing press with movable type

William Shakespeare

• 1. a book by Sir Thomas More (1516) describing the perfect society on an imaginary island 

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

• 1. the everyday speech of the people ( as distinguished from literary language)

• English dramatist and poet; considered one of the greatest writers in the English Language

Secular

• 1. In 1450, he was able to create a printing press with movable type

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

• 1. a book by Sir Thomas More (1516) describing the perfect society on an imaginary island 

• worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion; temporal

Humanism

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

• 1. a pardon releasing a person from priestly-imposed punishments due for a sin 

• 1. A renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers focused on human potential and achievements 

• worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion; temporal

Patron

• 1. In 1450, he was able to create a printing press with movable type

• the everyday speech of the people ( as distinguished from literary language)

• 1. person who financially supports the arts 

• 1. The great period of rebirth in art, literature, and learning in the 14th-16th centuries, which marked the transition into the modern periods of European history 

Perspective

• 1. a book by Sir Thomas More (1516) describing the perfect society on an imaginary island 

• 1. a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches 

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

• English dramatist and poet; considered one of the greatest writers in the English Language

Johan Gutenberg

• English dramatist and poet; considered one of the greatest writers in the English Language

• 1.  In 1450, he was able to create a printing press with movable type

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

• 1. worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion; temporal 

Vernacular

• 1. person who financially supports the arts 

• 1.  the everyday speech of the people ( as distinguished from literary language)

• 1. a pardon releasing a person from priestly-imposed punishments due for a sin 

• 1. English dramatist and poet; considered one of the greatest writers in the English Language 

Utopia

• a book by Sir Thomas More (1516) describing the perfect society on an imaginary island

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

• English dramatist and poet; considered one of the greatest writers in the English Language

• worldly; not pertaining to church matters or religion; temporal