Chapter 13: Reformations and Religious Wars Book Vocab

cantons

largely autonomous territories in the Holy Roman Empire

Edict of Nantes

A document issued by Henry IV of France in 1598, granting liberty of conscience and of public worship to Calvinists, which helped restore peace in France.

Indulgence

A document issued by the Catholic Church lessening penance or time in purgatory, widely believed to bring forgiveness of all sins

Huguenots

French Calvinists

Politiques

Catholic and Protestant moderates who held that only a strong monarchy could save France from total collapse

What language was the 95 These written in?

Latin

The Institute of the Christian Religion

Calvin's formulation of Christian doctrine, which has been a systematic theology for Protestantism

Predestination

Calvinist teaching that God has determined the salvation or damnation of individuals based on his will and purpose, not their merit or works.

Jesuits

Members of the Society of Jesus, founded by Ignatius of Loyola, whose goal was the spread of the Roman Catholic faith.

Anticlericalism

Opposition to the clergy

Union of Utrecht

The alliance of seven northern provinces (led by Holland) that declared its independence from Spain and formed the United Provinces of the Netherlands

Spanish Armada

The fleet sent by Philip II of Spain in 1588 against England as a religious crusade against Protestantism. Weather and the English fleet defeated it.

Holy Office

The official Roman Catholic agency founded in 1542 to combat international doctrinal heresy

Roman Inquisition

a committee of six cardinals with judicial authority over all Catholics and the power to arrest, imprison, and execute suspected heretics.

diet

assembly of the nobility, clergy, and cities of the Holy Roman Empire

Protestant

followers of Luther and Zwingli, which came to mean all non- Catholic Western Christian groups

Simony

the selling of Church offices

Puritans

wanted to "purify" the Church by eliminating all Catholic elements in the Church of England.