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Renaissance and Reformation Review

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What is humanism?

belief in human potential and achievement (humans are highest beings)

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Name 3 Renaissance artists (not writers).

Leonardo da Vinci, Jan van Eyck, Michelangelo, Albrecht Dürer, Pieter Bruegel, Raphael, Hans Holbein

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Who invented the moveable type printing press in Mainz, Germany?

Johannes Gutenberg

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Name 3 Renaissance writers.

William Shakespeare, Thomas More, Francois Rabelais, Erasmus of Rotterdam, Petrarch

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Where was Jan Hus from?

Bohemia (today's Czech Republic), in the Holy Roman Empire

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What does "priesthood of believers" refer to?

all believers are priests and can access God directly themselves

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Whose writings shaped a lot of Jan Hus' beliefs, especially about having the Bible in the vernacular?

John Wycliffe

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What happened to Jan Hus at the Council of Constance?

He was put on trial and burned at the stake

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What is an indulgence?

paper of "forgiveness" saying you have to spend fewer years in purgatory

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Who was the best seller of indulgences?

Johann (John) Tetzel

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What were the 95 Theses?

95 problems Luther saw in the Church, mostly about indulgences

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At which meeting was Martin Luther told to recant his works, but he refused?

Diet of Worms

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What natural event convinced Luther to give us his law studies and become a monk?

a lightning storm

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Why did Reformers start shutting down monasteries and nunneries, sometimes by force?

They wanted to get rid of the idea that you had to work to earn salvation or please God.

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What did Luther do with the papal bull that excommunicated him?

burned it publicly

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Why did Luther translate the Bible into German?

he had time on his hands; he believed people needed to understand God's word in their own langauge

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