Vocabulary Words for Renaissance and Reformation
1. patrons – a person who supports artists, especially
financially
2. mercenaries – soldiers who are paid to fight in a
foreign army
3. indulgences – a pardon releasing a person from
punishment due for a sin
4. secular – concerned with worldly rather than
spiritual matters
5. taxation – collecting a sum of money demanded
by the government for specified reasons
6. realism – an artistic movement in which writers
and painters sought to show life as it is rather than
life as it should be
7. radical – favoring drastic political, economic, or
social reforms
8. doctrine – a principle, position, or policy taught or
advocated, as of a religion or government 9. theocracy – government in which the ruler is
viewed as a divine figure or government run by
religious leaders
10. vernacular – the everyday language of people in
a region or country