The Renaissance
the language used by classical authors. He began the craze for manuscript hunting, in which scholars fanned out to monaster- ies ...
and also encouraged the work of scholars and manuscript copyists. The reign of Louis’s son-in-law, Sigismund, turned out badly f ...
Hus, Jan .......................................... (1371–1415) Religious reformer and scholar of Bohe- mia who led one of the f ...
dulgences (remissions of sin). The indul- gences were meant to finance a military crusade by Pope John XXIII against the king of ...
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Index A list of books that the Catholic Church held to be contrary to church doctrine, and thus forbidden to its members. The of ...
doctrine. Most of these medieval Inquisi- tionswereoperatedbymembersofthere- ligious orders, particularly the Domini- cans. The ...
Isabella of Castile ............................ (1451–1504) Queen of Castile whose marriage to Ferdi- nand of Aragon was the fo ...
tugal was partially resolved by the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494, by which the two nations divided the world into two spheres o ...
of nobles. There remained little conscious- ness of Italy as a united nation at the time of the Renaissance. Italians thought of ...
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James I of England (James VI of Scotland) (1566–1625) King of Scotland who succeeded the last Tudor monarch, Queen Elizabeth in ...
time to time, Jews were completely ex- pelled by decree of a prince or city coun- cil. Their property was confiscated and the de ...
living in the same neighborhoods as Chris- tians. This law was strictly enforced within the Papal States, the cities and territo ...
ing out against an English siege. In a des- perate situation, and with little realistic hope of success, the dauphin agreed. In ...
court of King Christian IV of Denmark. In Italy he studied the designs of Andrea Palladio, whose villas and monuments were inspi ...
nals, the body responsible for electing the pope. In 1492, on the death of Sixtus IV, he was thwarted in his goal by Cardinal Ro ...
under the pope’s control, but Julius found to his chagrin that the cities of Italy, weak- ened by many years of warfare, remaine ...
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Kepler, Johannes .............................. K (1571–1630) German astronomer who was the first to develop accurate theories o ...
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