AP Euro Chapter 13

Indulgence

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

Edict of Nantes

A document that granted religious freedom to the Calvinist which helped restore peace in France.

Institutes of the Christian Religion

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

Politiques

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

Huguenots

French Calvinists

Jesuits

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

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 great fleet sent from Spain against England by Philip II in 1588 as a religious crusade against Protestantism, Weather and English fleet defeated it.

Protestant

The name originally given to followers of Luther, which came to mean all non-Catholic Western Christian groups.

Holy Office

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

predestination

The theory that god had determined the salvation or damnation of individuals based on his will and purpose, not their merit or works

Anticlericalism

opposition to the clergy