Week XIV: early modern Europe

Key words list

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