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- edict of nantes
- A document of religious toleration issued by Henry IV which ended religious fighting Protestants and Catholics in France. This brought peace to France, but also Henry IV's assassination. It was cancelled by Louis XIV in 1685.
- erasmus
- Dutch humanist and theologian who was the leading Renaissance scholar of northern Europe
- cardinal richelieu
- minister of King Louis XVIII, appointed by Marie de Medici , had the real power, wanted to curb power of nobility, 32 generalities, military provinces France was divided into
- inquisition
- a severe interrogation (often violating the rights or privacy of individuals)
- reformation
- 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
- thirty years' war
- Protestant rebellion against the Holy Roman Empire
- anglican
- Relating to the Church of England, run by Queen Elizabeth I.
- individualism
- the quality of being individual
- michelangelo
- Florentine sculptor and painter and architect
- secularism
- a doctrine that rejects religion and religious considerations
- indulgences
- remission of the punishment for sin by the clergy in return for services or payments
- king henry VIII
- Founder of the church in England and ruled England from 1509-1547. He broke the Catholic church because he couldn't get a divorce
- catholiccounter reformation
- institued its own series of reforms that balanced real reform with a stident and conservative reactio to protestantism
- humanism
- the doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason
- renaissance
- the period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world
- society of jesus
- a Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in 1534 to defend Catholicism against the Reformation and to do missionary work among the heathen
- italian city states
- Venice, Florence and Milan
- leonardo da vinci
- Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect
- martin luther
- German theologian who led the Reformation
- predestination
- idea that God determines man's salvation before birth
- elizabeth I
- Queen of England from 1558 to 1603
- protestant
- making a protest that a church , referring to Christian religions that grew out of the Reformation
- shakespeare
- English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)
- religious tolerance
- willingness to let others practice their own beliefs
- 95 theses
- lsit of things wrong with church
- usury
- the act of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest
- holy roman
- l, an empire consisting primarily of a loose confederation of German and Italian territories under the suzerainty of an emperor and existing from the 9th or 10th century to 1806
- huguenots
- protestant reformers persecuted for their break from the catholic church
- printing press
- a machine used for printing
- john calvin
- Swiss theologian (born in France) whose tenets (predestination and the irresistibility of grace and justification by faith) defined Presbyterianism (1509-1564)