Study Guide For European Histo

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Boccaccio (1313­75), Italian
writer, poet, and humanist. He is
most famous for the Decameron (1348­58), a collection of a
hundred tales told by ten
young people who have moved to the country to escape the
Black Death.
8. Patronage.- Support given by members of Rennaisance
Society. Founding and
recognizing the arts.
9. Jesuits.- A member of the Society of Jesus, a Roman
Catholic order of priests founded
by St Ignatius Loyola, St Francis Xavier, and others in
1534, to do missionary work. The
order was zealous in opposing the Reformation. Despite
periodic persecution it has
retained an important influence in Catholic thought and
education.
10. Thomas More.- More, Thomas (1478-1535). One of the most
respected figures in
English history, Thomas More was a statesman, scholar, and
author. He was noted for his
wit and also for his devotion to his religion. More was
executed as a traitor for his refusal
to acknowledge King Henry VIII's ...

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to oversee his government.Frederick declared, "I
am the state." "I am the 1st
servant of the state." He codified the laws of Prussia,
abolished torture and capital
punishment, and instituted agricultural techniques imported
from the states of western
Europe. By the end of Frederick's reign, Prussia had
become a model for bureaucratic
organization, military reform, and enlightened rule.
Primogeniture-inheritance by eldest son
Adam Smith-he was a Scottish political theorist whose
work,"The Wealth of Nations,"was
the 1st great work of economic analysis in European
history. Smith had wide-ranging
interests and wrote with equal authority about
...

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