Reformation Review

Key Objective Information

Identify the following Renaissance Men by their contributions:

Medici: Petrarch: DaVinci: Michelangelo: Raphael: Castiglione: Machiavelli:

Renaissance Art and Literature What are the four characteristics of

Renaissance art? How do these characteristics (i.e. the ones

you named in the question above) illustrate the way people were beginning to think about life?

How did the literary works of William Shakespeare reflect Renaissance values? What kinds of issues did he explore?

What is patronage and why is it important to the arts?

A Revolution of Ideas: Science and Philosophy

Francis Bacon and Renee Descartes were known for their accomplishments in what field?

Robert Boyle, William Harvey, and Anthony von Leeuwenhoek were known for their accomplishments in what field?

What did Copernicus discover? What was Isaac Newton famous for?

A Revolution of Worship:Martin Luther and Protestantism

What is the Protestant Reformation? What is a Protestant? Who was Martin Luther? Which aspects of the Catholic faith did

Luther disagree with? What did Luther write? What are the three main beliefs of

Lutheranism?

John Calvin and Calvinism

What did John Calvin write? What is predestination? What kind of government did Calvin

create? Why did this government make it

difficult to live as a Calvinist?

Henry VIII and the Church of England Henry wanted his people to follow his orders,

rather than following orders from…? Why did Henry leave the Catholic Church and

form his own church? Besides making himself the head of the

Church of England, how else did Henry change religious life in England?

What happened to Henry’s second wife, Anne Boleyn? Why?

The Catholic Reformation

What did the Catholic Church do to strike back at the Protestant Reformers?

Who was Teresa of Anvila and what did she do?

Who was Ignatius of Loyola and what did he do?

Overall Themes of Renaissance Thought

What are the three values of the Renaissance time period? (Identify and define)

How did the values of the Renaissance bring about the Christian Reformation?

Identify the primary differences between the Renaissance and Medieval eras.

Where/how do we see these differences?