Wars of Religion | The Renaissance | Protestant Reformation | The Catholic Reformation | Important Historical People |
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What are Huguenots?
French Calvinists
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Who is Castiglione?
He wrote, "The Courtier"
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Sola Fide
By faith alone
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What isWhat is the Council of Trent?
Following the Protestant Reformation, this established Catholic dogma for the next four centuries
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Who is Erasmus?
He wrote, "In Praise of Folly."
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What is the Spanish Armada?
Naval battle of 1588
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What is the vernacular?
Everyday language for a specific nation
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What is simony?
The sale of church offices
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Who is Loyola?
Founder of the Jesuits
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Who is Michel de Montaigne?
He was the father of modern skepticism?
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Who is William of Orange
He led the Dutch revolt against Spain
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Who is Dante?
The Italian poet who wrote "Inferno" and "The Divine Comedy"
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What is Ireland?
A celtic country where Protestantism did not spread
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What is baroque?
Style of art done in a concrete and emotional way, demonstrating the glory and power of the Catholic church
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Who is Machiavelli?
He wrote what is considered the first political treatise.
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Who is Charles I?
He was the first victim of European regiscide.
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What is virtu?
The Renaissance term used for the striving for excellence
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What is the Peace of Augsburg?
"Cuius Regio, Cuius Religio" was the answer to this treaty.
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Who is Catherine of Aragon?
Henry VIII's first wife, his brother's widow
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Who is Sir Thomas More?
He wrote, "Utopia."
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Who are Quakers?
They believed in an inner light.
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Who is Christine de Pisan?
She wrote the Renaissance woman's survival manual in "The City of Ladies" and "The Book of Three Virtues"
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What is Turkey?
Charles V was preoccupied with this country's threat in Hungary, thus unintentionally allowing Protestantism to spread quickly in Germany
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What is the Index Librorum Prohibitorum, or List of Prohibited Books
The list of publications prohibited by the Catholic Church
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Who is Botticelli?
He painted "The Birth of Venus."
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