Explain the factors that lead to Charles I’s decision to impose a prayer book on Scotland in 1637. Evaluate the political‚ religious and social consequences of the decision. Charles’ decision to impose a prayer book on Scotland in 1637 proved to be an ill-advised move. It was due in part to Charles’ obsession with creating a unified Kingdom based on his strongly held Laudian religious ideas. Without understanding the Scottish plight he brashly introduced the prayer book‚ triggering a Scottish backlash
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Italian/Northern Renaissance | | Medici Family | They dominated Florence during the 15th century and were interested in industry‚ trade‚ and banking. The first was Giovanni di Bicci de’Medici (1360-1429)‚ and the most famous was Lorenzo the Magnificent (1449-1492)‚ the great grandson of Giovanni. Medici power fell after Savonarola (1452-1498)‚ a Franciscan friar‚ gained power‚ and therefore‚ Florence was never the same. | Humanism | England: * Started taking hold in early 15th century taught
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Life on Earth is simple enough. Living beings are born; living beings die; everything else is just filler. Humans are different. The human spirit drives our species to do more than just survive. We must have purpose. We must have a story. This drive is repeatedly evident throughout our history‚ perhaps most evident in the evolution of the country we would one day call the United States of America. Though civilizations existed for thousands of years prior‚ it was not until the migration and colonization
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golden age of philanthropy. Toward the end of the century‚ the Sunday school movement made its appearance with a vision of providing popular education. Meanwhile‚ Oxford and Cambridge continued to be open only to Anglicans. From within the fold of Anglicanism‚
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The basis of any great dramatic play lies in its devilment of plot or of characters‚ but in Look Back in Anger‚ the chief characteristic seems its reliance on action which is based on the use of language in the play. Undoubtedly‚ the action of the play is mainly psychological and involves necessary use of language. The characters have fluctuating thoughts‚ hidden emotions and relational bindings which find expression through word‚ stance or even gestures. In this regard‚ it has been the opinion of
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Social Darwinism At the end of the 19th century‚ Social Darwinism was promoted and included the various ideologies based on a concept that competition among all individuals‚ groups‚ nations‚ or ideas was the framework of social evolution in human societies. In this view‚ society ’s advancement was dependent on the "survival of the fittest"‚ the term was in fact coined by Herbert Spencer and referred to in "The Gospel of Wealth" theory written by Andrew Carnegie. Childhood and Education Charles
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5. Luther’s answers as delineated in the Confession of Augsburg to the four basic theological issues were the following. When asked how a person is saved‚ Luther said by faith alone. When asked where does religious authority reside‚ Luther said in the Word of God‚ as revealed in the Bible alone. When asked what is the church‚ he said the entire Christian community. Luther said there is no highest form of Christian life‚ all are equal. 6. His violent opposition to the Peasant’s War made his teachings
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revolutionaries and tried to introduce absolute monarchy. In this period‚ conflicts between monarchy and Parliament recur and are essentially religious. Charles II and James II were charged with links to Catholicism while England have a basic religion called Anglicanism. Parliament took a decision so that the two were removed from the throne in 1688.In their place was coming William
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Commentaire – Jude the Obscure‚ Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy described the novel in his preface as dramatizing “a deadly war between flesh and spirit”. This quasi reference to St Paul’s conception of human dualism goes far towards explaining the nature of Jude’s tragedy. This dualism appears also in the book. Jude The Obscure is the last of Thomas Hardy’s novels published in 1895: its critical reception was so negative that Hardy resolved never to write another novel. The passage under analysis
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case of Pickthall‚ this was a luminous‚ steadily progressing reality which impressed all who came into contact with him. Even his unbelieving first biographer‚ Anne Fremantle‚ opined that ‘had he changed from evangelical or even from high church Anglicanism to the Roman faith‚ doubtless the machinery of sanctification would have by now been set to work.’ He was a man of discreet charity‚ the extent of whose generosity was only discovered after his death. He turned down lucrative and prestigious speaking
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