Vocabulary Words for Renaissance and Reformation



Vocabulary Words for Renaissance and Reformation

1. patrons – a person who supports artists, especially financially

2. mercenaries – soldiers who are paid to fight in a foreign army

3. indulgences – a pardon releasing a person from punishment due for a sin

4. secular – concerned with worldly rather than spiritual matters

5. taxation – collecting a sum of money demanded by the government for specified reasons

6. realism – an artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be

7. radical – favoring drastic political, economic, or social reforms

8. doctrine – a principle, position, or policy taught or advocated, as of a religion or government

9. theocracy – government in which the ruler is viewed as a divine figure or government run by religious leaders

10. vernacular – the everyday language of people in a region or country

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