(there are lots of proper names this week; I've tried to alphabetise them by the best-known form, so, e.g., Giovanni Pico della Mirandola appears under p ["Pico" is his surname, "Mirandola" the name of his hometown], Leonardo da Vinci is under l ["Vinci" is his hometown], but Jan van Eyck is under v [he is, incongruently, usually referred to as "Van Eyck"], Marsilius of Padua under m and Marsilio Ficino under f.)
Leon Battista Alberti
Avignon -- "Babylonian Captivity"
bank (from Ital banca, "bench")
Beguines
Black Death -- (bubonic) plague -- animal husbandry
Giovanni Boccaccio -- Decameron
Bohemia -- university of Prague (cf. Jan Hus)
Book of Hours
Sandro Botticelli
Filippo Brunelleschi -- Florence duomo (It "dome [of the cathedral]")
Burgundy
buttons -- (eye) glasses
Conciliarism / conciliar movement -- Council of Pisa -- Council of Constance
Dante Alighieri -- The (Divine) Comedy
dauphin
Marsilio Ficino
flagellants -- danse macabre (Fr "dance of death") -- violence against Jews -- Poland
fresco
fuero (Sp "charter of rights" < Lat forum "city square [i.e. where law is enacted]")
Giotto
Great Famine (1315-1322)
Jean Froissart
Great Schism (of the West, 1378-1417; ≠ schism of 1054 btw Rome & Constantinople)
gunpowder -- cannon
humanism (from L studia humanitatis, "the pursuits / study of humankind") -- civic humanism
Hundred Years' War (1337-1453) -- Crécy (battle) -- Agincourt (battle) -- Orléans -- Calais
Jan Hus -- Hussites (cf. Conciliarism)
(letters of) indulgence -- plenary (= complete) indulgence -- purgatory
interdict -- excommunication
Jacquerie (prob'ly from Fr jacques used as a stereotypical peasant name) -- (English) Peasants' Revolt -- poll tax -- Wat Tyler & John Ball -- Ciompi uprising
Joan of Arc ("the maid of Orléans") -- Henry V of England -- Charles VII of France (cf. dauphin)
Leonardo da Vinci
Ambroggio Lorenzetti -- Siena -- Buon Governo (Ital "good government") -- concordia ("concord," lit. "joint [with a single] cord")
Niccolò Machiavelli -- The Prince (cf. Week XIII)
Marsilius of Padua -- The Defender of the Peace (L Defensor Pacis)
mercenaries / free companies -- men-at-arms -- standing army -- crossbows -- longbows -- jousting -- chivalry (cf. Burgundy)
William of Ockham -- Ockham's razor -- nominalism -- realism -- John XXII
Ottoman (Turks) -- sultan -- Osman I -- Mehmed II -- Istanbul -- infidels -- Kosovo (battle) -- janissaries (cf. Week XIII)
perspective (a.k.a. visual or scientific perspective)
Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca) -- poet laureate
Giovanni Pico (della Mirandola)
piazza (Ital "city square"; cf. plaza)
polyphony -- Josquin des Prez -- Johannes Ockeghem
Renaissance (Fr "rebirth"; cf. L renovatio, "renewal") -- tripartite chronology: Antiquity, Middle Ages, Modernity
William Shakespeare
Jan van Eyck
Giorgio Vasari
wonderful blood (of Christ; cf. Eucharist, Week XI)
John Wycliffe -- Lollards