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Black Death
bubonic plague, sweeps through Europe in the 14th century, causes internal bleeding and black spots
bring out your dead
Wat Tyler's rebellion
an uprising of English peasants led by Wat Tyler, asking fundamentally if it is OK to have classes
peasant
jaqueries
uprising of French peasants, also known as Jaques
Jaques is the French nickname for the peasantry
Hundred Year's War
Actually 116 years, this was a war between France and England in 1337. England claimed much of the land that was held by the French. Joan of Arc was a great French military leader, but the French didn't stand a chance against the English longbows
Joan of Arc
Boniface VIII
Pope who issued the papal bull "Unam Sanctum" angered the French King Philip the Fair, arrested
Pope High and Mighty
Unam Sanctum
Papal bull issued by Boniface VIII stating that the church was untaxable, that only Catholics could be "saved," and that the Pope had the right to judge every person
Pope High and Mighty
Babylonian Captivity
The papacy is moved to Avignon in France to serve the French king
Avignon
The Great Schism
Two popes are elected, one in Avignon and one in Rome, causing insecurity in the church
Bipapal
annates
the entire first year's salary of every new bishop/abbot goes to the pope
annual
Council of Pisa
tries to depose other pope and elect a new one, but now there's a third pope
tripapal
Council of Constance
goals: end schism (Martin V elected), remove heresy (John Huss burned), reform church (not much done here)
elections, burning, and change
Lollards
followers of William Longland, author of Piers Plowman written against the upper class
anti-upper class
John Wyclif
Oxford teacher, doubts need for established church for salvation
anti-structural
John Huss
agrres with Wyclif, starts German Hussites
Hussites
Pragmatic Sanction of Bourges
the Gallican (French) church is given greater liberty from Rome, no annates, chooses bishops
Gallican liberties
Simony
sale of church offices
ya wanna buy a bishop?
Nepotism
favoring of family
well he is my brother...
indulgences
money paid to the church to speed the passage of souls through Purgatory
purchasing salvation
Renaissance popes
not quite so religious anymore, scholars, enjoy society, military, artistic
secularization
Renaissance
rebirth
if you can't describe this in one word, you should switch classes
quattrocentro
15th century (1400s)
centro like hundred
city-states
independent, self-governed towns of Italy
more than a city, less than a state
Florence
center of the Italian Renaissance
think Da Vinci, Michelangelo, etc.
Medici
wealthy banking family that controls Florence and patronizes the arts
family owned city
virtu
manliness, success
be a man
condotierre
leaders of private armies hired to defend the city-states
rent-an-army
Petrarch
writer, humanist, writes outside of religion
humane letters
Leonardo Da Vinci
painter, Last Supper, Mona Lisa, paints real people in the world of religion
please just know this
Raphael
painter, Madonnas (young women)
artist
Michelangelo
painter, sculptor, David, Pieta, Sistine Chapel
jack of all trades
Humane letters
secular writing
who needs religion?
Boccaccio
writes Decamaron about human behavior
writer
Bruni
writes history of Florence, past is important but seperate from present and future, also the chancellor of Florence
governor and writer
Castiglione
writes The Courtier on good manners and behavior
P's and Q's
Christine de Pisan
woman humanist wirter
not a girly girl
Popolo grosso
the wealthy upper class of Italy, including merchants and manufacturers
fat people
Mediocri
middle class, artisans, small merchants
mediocre
Popolo minuti
urban population, the poor
little people
Tuscan
the language of Florence, now Italian
Tuscany is a city-state near Florence
Grandi
the governing class, wealthy merchants
grand
Signoria
elected council of Florence to propose laws and manage foreign affairs
council
Pazzi consipiracy
assassination attempt onf Lorenzo the Magnificent de Medici during a mass
killer
Council of Seventy
creates committees to manage internal affairs, run by Medici
government
"pagan" humanism
secular humanists movement
pagan means without religion
Regiomontanus
part of the Northern renaissance, declares the universe to be governed by math
math
Copernicus
declared heliocentric (sun-center) theory of universe
heliocentric
Meister Eckhart
mystic in the North
mystic
Thomas a Kempis
mystic in the North, writes Imitation of Christ
mystic writer
Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life
participants in lay religion, not clerics but lead a holy life
common sisters and brothers
Erasmus
humanist of the north, writes on leading a holy life without stupidity or violence
northern writer
Praise of Folly
book by Erasmus satirizing worldy ambition
its all in the title
Handbook of a Christian Knight
shows how to be both secular and religious
again, in the title
mysticism
direct commune with God without the church
religion w/o church
lay religion
people follow God fully without joining the church
common religion
Erasmian virtues
Erasmus's values of mildness, reasonableness, tolerance, restraint, manners, scholarship, peace, reform through thinking
modern Christian values
common law
traditional rights of the feudal system
tradition!
Tudors
new monarchy of england
Tudor dynasty
Henry VII
conquers the land and reduces the powers of the nobles
1st Tudor
Star Chamber
the judgement room of Henry VII
law court of the king
livery and maintenance
the practice of nobles to maintaina a private army, abolished by Henry VII
noble's defense
Louis XI
new monarch of France, of the Volois line, expands French border, raises taxes w/o parliament
French king
Francis I
king of France, creates Concordat of Bologna
another French king
Concordat of Bologna
agreement between France and Rome to remove the Pragmatic Sanction so that the pope still recieves annates and the French king still chooses bishops
anti-Pragmatic
Aragon and Castille
two major kingdoms of Spain
Spanish
Ferdinand and Isabella
monarchs of Aragon and Castille, respectively, who marry to unite Spain
marriage of unity
Inquisition
Spanish Inquisition, requires religious conformity, uses torture
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Conquest of Granada
Spanish conquer southern province of Granada, previously held by Moores
southern area
Moriscos and Marranos
Christians of Muslim and Jewish descent, respectively, whom many are suspicious of
converts?
Habsburgs
elected leaders of the HRE, eventually own much of Europe and America
big family
Maximilian I
Habsburg emperor, tries to centralize HRE admin, marries heiress of Burgundy to inherit Burgundy and Netherlands to son Philip, who marries Joanna of Spain to inherit Spanish holdings
Habsburg territorial expansion
Charles V
son of Philip and Joanna, owns Spanish holdings, Austria, Burgundy, Netherlands, brother Ferdinand owns Hungary and Bohemia
huge tracts of land
Wars of the Roses
wars betweens English barons that weaken the noblility, to the benefit of the king
noble war
imperial knights
land owners of the HRE, loyal only to emperor
HRE knights
Martin Luther
a monk who believed that a person's spirituality is justified by faith, rather than faith and works. He appealed to the pope, was excommunicated, and founded Luteranism
lutheran
Lutheranism
No purgatory, only recognizes two sacraments (baptism and communion), refutes transubstantiation for consubstantiation, believes state should govern religion
Luther
justification by faith
belief is primary, while doing things to demonstrate belief are secondary
instead of faith and works
Tetzel
traveling friar who sold indulgences and enraged Luther
indulgences
95 theses
Luther's ideas posted on the Wittenberg church door
Luther
Charles V and Luther
Charles apprehends Luther and bans him from the empire
Charles is the HOLY ROMAN Emperor
Diet of Worms
assembly in Worms that banned Luther from preaching in the Empire after a papal bull excommunicating him
Worms is a city
1524 peasant revolt
inspired by religious reforms, peasants revolt and demand regulation of rent and security of rights. Despite inspiration by Luther, Luther himself rejects them
religious unrest
Anabaptists
radical religious leaders saying that the world needs more love, or that infants shouldn't be baptized or that polygamy is alright. John of Leyden takes over Munster
religious revolt
Cuius regio eius religion
his the region his the religion, the decision of the HRE to allow the leader of each territory to choose the area religion
his the_______, his the ________
Schmalkaldic War
Lutheran princes gather in League of Schmalkald to rebel for rights against the HRE, helped by the French
war of religion
Peace of Augsburg
ends Schmalkaldic war, allows leaders of territories to choose between Lutheranism and Catholicism, but says that any leader that changes religion has to move themselves
ends war of religion
Ecclesiastical reservation
part of the Peace of Augsburg, saying that if the leader of an HRE territory should change religion, they must move to a territory supporting them, rather than changing their territory
limit of choosing religion
John Calvin
Lawyer who joined forces with other Protestants to form Calvinism
Calvinism
Calvinism
the religion founded by John Calvin, holding that there is nothing divine about the Eucharist, promoting predestination, and wanting to govern itself
John Calvin
Institutes of the Christian Religion
book written by John Calvin addressing the world, providing those dissatisfied with the Roman Catholic church but living in a Catholic community a way to practice their own religion quietly
John Calvin
Predestination
God has predetermined those to be saved, and they will be perfect
John Calvin
Presbyteries
the "governments" or small councils created to lead Calvinist communities, made up of elected ministers and lay religious
Calvin's Geneva
Geneva
the area of Switzerland where John Calvin set up his religious community to live up to his exacting standards of morality and pious life
Calvinist
Michael Servetus
Spanish refugee to Geneva burned for denial of holy trinity
Protestant even to Calvinism
Huguenots
French Calvinists
Calvinism
John Knox
brings Calvinism to Scotland in the form of Presbyterianism
Calvinism
1534 Act of Supremacy
Henry VIII declares himself the sole leader of the Church of England in rebellion to the pope who wouldn't annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon
Henry VIII
Six Articles (1539)
requires English belief in several Catholic ideas including transubsantiation, the celibacy of the clergy, and the need for confession
Henry VIII
Church of England/Anglicanism
Protestant church led by the English monarch, using the English rather than Latin language, refusing the cult of saints, and allowing the clergy to marry
protestant church in England
Thirty-nine articles (1563)
evasive articles written by bishops under Elizabeth that made the Anglican church generally protestant
Elizabeth
Church of Ireland
a replica of the Church of England established in Ireland
protestant church in Ireland
Edward VI
son of Henry VIII who was manipulated into making the Church of England more Protestant
successor to Henry VIII
Mary Tudor
Bloody Mary, daughter of Catherine of Aragon, angry at the Protestant church for the removal of her mother, tries to re-Catholicize England by mass executions, marries PHilip of Spain, just makes Catholicism unpopular
successor to Edward VI
Elizabeth I
daughter of Hanry VIII by Anne Boleyn, can't be Catholic, doesn't really care about religion but allows the church to become protestant
successor to Bloody Mary
episcopal movement
a movement of bishops who wanted to establish a council greater than the authority of the pope
conciliar
Vulgate
translation of the Bible by St. Jerome accepted by the Catholic church as the true translation
Bible
Council of Trent
a council established to correct abuses of the Catholic church, sometimes known interchangeably as the Catholic/Counter Reformation
abuses
pluralism
the practice of clergy holding several offices in the church, abolished
plural=multiple
Paul III
the first of the reforming popes, regarding the papacy to be a moral force rather than a status
reform
St. Vincent de Paul
works for the poor in Paris
outreach
Jesuits
society of Jesus, establishes schools, missions, characterized by extreme faith in the church, become involved politically, ultramontanistic
society of Jesus
Ursulines
religious order for women
women
St. Ignatius Loyola
establishes Jesuits
religious order
Spiritual Exercises
book written by Loyola outlining the sever mystical training that a Jesuit must undergo
Loyola
ultramontanism
placing the pope above all others, proclaiming him infallible
papal
Papal Index of Prohibited Books
List of books considered by the papacy to be dangerous to the religous health of Catholics
book burning (kinda)
Roman/Papal Inuqisition
attempts to root out heresy, never operates too severely outside of Rome
like the Spanish one
Wars of Religion
wars fought between Protestants and Catholics for territorial control
Vasco De Gama
Portuguese sailor who rounded the tip of Africa in 1498; sets up Portuguese commerce by force
Albuquerque
first governor general of the Portuguese Empire in the Indian Ocean
St. Francis Xavier
Jesuit missoinary baptizes thousands in India, Indonesia, and Japan
Magellan
circumnavigates the globe by going south of South America; dies on journey
Treaty of 1494
Treaty of Tordesillas; divides the globe between Spain and Portugal; line down the Atlantic gives Spain South America and Portugal Asia
Conquistadores
Spanish conquerers
Encomienda
a system of forced Native American work where the natives worked a certain number of days of the week and keep a patch of land for themselves
Black Legend
stories of the awful treatment of natives and Africans in the Spanish Empire; based on a book by Bartolome de las Casas
Potosi
a silver mine in Peru; very lucrative
Mestizos
people of mixed European and Indian background
University of Lima
the university in the Peruvian capital; one of 5 in the Spanish empire
Capital
money and raw materials for the creation of goods
Entrepreneur
a person who starts a business
"price revolution"
a steady inflation of European currency, which decreased in value; caused by influx of precious metal, increased population, and kings debasing currency