Renaissance & Reformation Vocab Review

Famous Renaissance playwright.

Member of a Protestant church governed by elders and founded by John Knox.

Member of a Christian church founded on the principles of the Reformation.

Meeting of Roman Catholic leaders to rule on doctrines criticized by the Protestant reformers.

16th Cenutry Catholic reform movement in response to the Protestant Reformation.

To be successful.

Cancel or put and end to.

To change something.

Focus on human potential and achievements.

Member of a Protestant group who believed only adults should be baptized. Also believed separation of church and state.

People who financially supported artists.

Agreement in 1555 declaring that the religion of each German state would be declared by its ruler.

Religious teachings based on the ideas of the reformer John Calvin.

Use of native or everyday language instead of classical Latin.

Concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters.

Art technique that recreates three dimensions on a two-dimensional surface.

Members of the Society of Jesus, a Catholic religious order founded by Ignatius of Loyola.

German craftsman who developed the printing press.

Lifelike.

Printing blocks that could be moved into new positions and reused.

A period of rebirth of art and learning in Europe lasting from about 1300 to 1600.

Release from punishments due for a sin.

Someone that specializes in a branch of study.

Government controlled by religious leaders.

Doctrine that God has decided all things beforehand including which people will be saved.

Name given to the Church of England

To express one's disagreement.

English Parliament of 1529 that passed laws placing royal control over the English clergy.

An ideal place

To disagree.

A law passed by the Reformation Parliament that declared Henry VII the head of the Church of England.

Member of a Protestant church founded on the teachings of Martin Luther.

16th century movement for religious reform, leading to the founding of new Christian churches.

The language, ideas, inventions, and art of a particular people. Their unique way of life.

Wrote the book Utopia. Opposed the Protestant Reformation. Was imprisoned and executed by Henry VIII.