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Seminar World: Renaissance and Reformation
Refer to Chapter 15 in your text. Explain the significance of each as it relates to history.
1. Renaissance –
2. Humanism –
3. Secular –
4. Niccolo Machiavelli –
5. Francesco Petrarch 6. Lorenzo de Medici –
7. Leonardo da Vinci –
8. Michelangelo Buonarroti –
9. Raphael –
10. Donatello –
11. Filippo Brunelleschi –
12. Johannes Gutenberg –
13. Desiderius Erasmus –
14. Sir Thomas More –
15. William Shakespeare –
16. Christine de Pisan –
17. Albrecht Durer –
18. Jan van Eyck –
19. Protestant Reformation –
20. Indulgences –
21. Jan Hus –
22. John Wycliffe –
23. Martin Luther –
24. John Calvin –
25. Henry VIII –
26. Elizabeth I –
27. Anabaptists –
28. Counter Reformation –
29. Jesuits –
30. Ignatius of Loyola –
31. Council of Trent –
32. Charles Borromeo –
33. Francis Sales –
34. Teresa of Sales –
35. Inquisition –
Short Answers
1. How did the success of Italian city-states help make the Renaissance possible?
2. Which characteristics of the Renaissance do you consider most revolutionary? Explain.
3. Why did it become dangerous to own a book by Erasmus?
4. How does the position of women in society during the Italian Renaissance compare to that during the
age of chivalry? In which era do you think women were better off? Explain.
5. If Martin Luther had not posted his theses back in 1517, would the Reformation ever have happened?