Anabaptists (Gk "rebaptisers") -- Menno Simons -- Mennonites
armada
artisan / artist -- scientist -- merchant -- entrepreneur
Francis Bacon -- induction
Baroque
bloodletting (as a medical practice)
Jean Bodin -- absolutism
Giordano Bruno
Canada -- Jacques Cartier -- John Cabot
common-law marriage
Nikolaus Copernicus -- On the Revolutions of the Celestial Bodies -- Tycho Brahe -- Ptolemy of Alexandria -- Ptolemaic astronomy
Renée Descartes -- deduction
enserfment
Desiderius Erasmus (of Rotterdam)
fencing
Galileo Galilei
Golden Bull
El Greco -- Mannerism
Hugo Grotius -- natural law -- natural rights
Gustavus Adolphus
heliocentric (Gk "centred on the sun") -- geocentric ("centred on the earth")
justice of the peace (cf. corregidor, Week XIII)
Johannes Kepler
Leonardo da Vinci
Little Ice Age
natural magic -- black magic -- witchcraft
Niccolò Machiavelli
malnutrition
Martin Luther -- Lutheran Church
Michel de Montaigne -- essay
Claudio Monteverdi -- opera
Münster
Isaac Newton -- Newtonian (adj.) -- universal gravitation
Paracelsus -- Andreas Vesalius -- William Harvey -- Galen
Peasants' War (1525-26) -- Thomas Müntzer
Protestant -- Reformation -- Counter-Reformation
Rembrandt van Rijn
Peter Paul Rubens
scientific revolution -- logic -- experimentation /empirical observation -- mathematics
secularisation
spinster
theatre -- professional acting companies / troupes -- Lope de Vega -- William Shakespeare
theocracy -- theocratic (adj.)
Thirty Years' War
tithe
torture
William Tyndale -- Tyndale Bible -- vernacular -- Vulgate
vagabonds -- God's poor
Valois (dynasty)
Katharina Zell
Huldrych Zwingli