Renaissance Vocab by Autumn Marshall

Renaissance

28marshalla3 — 2024-09-12 13:50:58 UTC

Definition: Renaissance was a historical and cultural art period starting with Greek and Roman ideas, later spreading to Eruope.

Sentence: "Me and my grandma went to the art museum to see the renaissance paintings."

Humanism

28marshalla3 — 2024-09-12 13:58:52 UTC

Definition: Renaissance philosophy emphasizing the worth of an individual and balancing religious faith with secular learning.

Sentence: "for these reasons, a defence of reason, science, and humanism is timely and important."

Reformation

28marshalla3 — 2024-09-12 14:02:00 UTC

Definition: A reform movement of the 1500's that split the church and formed the protestant religion.

sentence: "they are examining the reformation of the tax law."

Protestant

28marshalla3 — 2024-09-12 14:04:36 UTC

Definition: Christains who were seperated from the Church during the Reforation.

Sentence: "he was one of the supporters of the protestant church"

Counter-Reformation

28marshalla3 — 2024-09-12 14:06:28 UTC

Definition: a movement to revive and defend Catholicism in response to the Reformation.

Sentence: "when the counter-reformatiom set in, many Catholics endured fines and exile with constancy"

Denomination

28marshalla3 — 2024-09-21 23:52:06 UTC

Definition: a religious group or movement with a larger religion sharing a common interpretation of that Religion

Sentence: "all Christians were welcome, regardless of denomination."

Enlightenment

28marshalla3 — 2024-09-21 23:53:49 UTC

Definition: an intellectual movement of the 18th century that applies scientific methods to the study of society and the government.

Sentence: "he looked to me for Enlightenment"

Ex Communication

28marshalla3 — 2024-09-21 23:57:06 UTC

Definition: expulsion from a church or religious community

Sentence: "local church council's responded by excomunnicating members who signed the petition"

Geocentric Theory

28marshalla3 — 2024-09-21 23:59:34 UTC

Definition: an idea that Earth is the center of the solar system or universe

Sentence: "The universally adopted view of the structure of the universe was geocentric, of the world, anthropocentric"

Heliocentric theory

28marshalla3 — 2024-09-22 00:01:21 UTC

Definition: an idea that the sun is the center of the solar system, with Earth and other planets revolving around it.

Sentence: "The heliocentric model was advanced by Nicolas Copernicus back in the 1500's"

Heresy

28marshalla3 — 2024-09-22 00:08:40 UTC

Definition: Holding religious beliefs that contradict the teachings of the church

Sentence: "some opinions were regarded as Heresy"

Indulgence

28marshalla3 — 2024-09-22 00:11:46 UTC

Definition: An official church pardon that relived Catholics from punishment for sins

Sentence: "indulgence in self-pity"

Perspective

28marshalla3 — 2024-09-22 00:14:08 UTC

Definition: painting or drawing techniques that gives the appearance of depth on a flat surface

Sentence: "I learned more about perspective while taking an art class"

Scientific revolution

28marshalla3 — 2024-09-22 00:17:07 UTC

Definition: A shift in thinking about the study of the natural world and began in the 1500s and ended up departing from religious teachings

Sentence: "by challenging established beliefs about the cosmos, the scientific revolution profoundly impacted Western thought and society."

Secular

28marshalla3 — 2024-09-22 00:21:37 UTC

Definition: Non religious; worldly

Sentence: "some people ascribe to a secular world view"

Vernacular

28marshalla3 — 2024-09-22 00:26:02 UTC

Definition: the native language of a person, region, or country

Sentence: "They wrote in Latin as well as in their various vernacular dialects."

Martin Luther & his 95 Theses

28marshalla3 — 2024-09-22 00:29:49 UTC

Definition: In his theses, Luther condemned the excesses and corruption of the Roman Catholic Church, especially the papal practice of asking payment—called “indulgences”—for the forgiveness of sins.

Sentence: "