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James I |
(1603-1625) King of England and Scotland who succeeded Queen Elizabeth I and became the first English Stuart monarch; believed in divine-right monarchy; was Catholic |
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Charles I |
(1625-1649) King of England who was forced to sign the Petition of Right by the Parliament; introduced more Catholic ritual into the Anglican church and the Scots rebelled |
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Long Parliament |
(1640-1660) a meeting of Parliament that resulted in limitations on royal authority and passed the Triennial Act |
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English Civil War |
(1642-1649) a war in England that happened as a result of the Long Parliament; created the New Model Army; first stage of the war ended with Parliament's capture of Charles I; Charles I's beheading ended the war |
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Rump Parliment |
(mid 1600s) what was left of Parliment after Cromwell came to power; tried and condemned Charles I with treason; proclaimed England to be a republic |
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Oliver Cromwell |
(1640s-1658) a leader of the New Model Army during the English Civil War who became leader of the English Commonwealth through military and became Lord Protector through the Instrument of Government |
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Levellers |
(mid 1600s) a radical group that opposed Cromwell and believed in freedom of speech, religious toleration, and a democratic republic and argued fro women's equality of rights with men |
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Charles II |
(1660-1685) King of England who was inclined toward Catholicism and issued the Declaration of Indulgence which suspended laws against Catholics and Puritans |
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Test Act |
(1673) an act passed by Parliment during Charles II's reign that said only Anglicans could hold military and civil offices |
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James II |
(1685-1688) King of England who attempted to further Catholic interest; had two Protestant daughters and a Catholic son |
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Glorious Revolution |
(1688) an invitation for William and Mary to invade England so that James II's Catholic son would not be king; confirmed William and Mary as monarchs |
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William and Mary |
(1688) William of Orange, husband to Mary, James II's daughter - signed the English Bill of Rights; rulers by Parliment, not God |
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English Bill of Rights |
(1689) a constitution signed by William and Mary on Parliment's terms that affirmed Parliment's right to make laws and levy taxes and required Parliment's consent to raise a standing army |
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Toleration Act |
(1689) an act passed by Parliment that settles religious questions; gave Puritan Dissentors the right of free public worship but did not full civil and political equality; excluded Catholics |
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Thomas Hobbes |
(1588-1679) an English political thinker who said that people contracted to form a commonwealth in which power was placed into the hands of the sovereign authority who possessed unlimited power to save themselves; said if subjects rebel they should be suppressed |
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John Locke |
(1632-1704) English political thinker who believed humans had three inalienable rights - life, liberty and prosperity; established government to ensure their rights but if government broke their agreement the people could form a new government |
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Mannerism |
(1520s-1530s) an art movement that reflected the environment of anxiety, uncertainty, suffering, and yearning for spiritual experience |
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El Greco |
(1541-1614) a Greek Mannerism artist who used elongated and contorted figures |
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Baroque |
(late 1500s) an art movement that began in Italy and was embraced by the Catholic Reform movement; known for its use of dramatic efforts to create emotion |
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Peter Paul Rubens |
(1577-1644) a Flemish Baroque artist whose artwork is characterized by heavily fleshed nudes, restless forms and constant movement creating dynamic unity |
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Gian Lorenzo Bernini |
(1598-1680) an Italian Baroque architect and sculptor who sculpted Ecstasy of Saint Theresa |
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Artemesia Gentileschi |
(1593-1653) an Italian Baroque artist who known as a portrait painter; painted Judith Beheading Holofernes |
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French Classicism |
(late 1600s) a French art movement that reflected the shift from chaos to order and portrayed noble subjects, especially those from Classical antiquity |
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Nicolas Poussin |
(1594-1665) a French Classicist painter who chose to paint scenes from mythology |
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Dutch Realism |
(1600s) a Dutch art movement in which subject matter included portraits of burghers and patriarchs; basically everyday life |
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Rembrant van Rijn |
(1606-1669) a Dutch Realist who depicted Biblical tales in a secular time |
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Jean-Baptiste Moliere |
(1622-1673) a French dramatist who wrote, produced, and acted in a series of comedies that satired the religious and social world |