HIST 1010 Final: History Final Exam Study Guide
16 Jan 2019
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Sumptuary laws: regulations mandating or restricting the wearing of certain clothes or insignia among different classes of people. Foot binding: the practice of tightly wrapping the feet of young girls in order to break and reset the bones to compress the feet to about one-third of their normal size. Mothers generally did this to their daughters to make them more marriageable, since tiny feet were considered the epitome of female beauty. Passion play: dramatic representation of the trial, suffering and death of jesus christ; passion plays are still an integral part of holy week in many catholic countries today. Renaissance: rebirth of culture based on new publications and translations of greek, Hellenistic and roman authors whose writings were previously unknown in western christianity. New sciences: mathematized sciences, such as physics introduced in the 1500s. Humanism: intellectual movement focusing on human culture, in such fields as philosophy, philology and literature and based on the corpus of greek and roman text.
