a trial -Executive - unlimited executive B. Clergy - first estate -Upper clergy -Lower clergy Upper clergy -e.g. Archbishops‚ Abbots Many churchman - took position for advantages -85% of Church’s income used by them -Owned and rented out 1/5 of land of France -Exempt paying taxes and army services -Only subjected to church courts (above courts and tried in these courts) -Received tithes from 3rd Estate (1/10 of peoples salary) Lower Clergy -e.g. Priests‚ monks (from 3rd estate) -Poor
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The Friar is the least moral character of all the clergy members according to Chaucer’s “General Prologue”. Clergy members are religious characters who promise to follow four vows. However‚ many of the members actually immorally break these promises. These vows include poverty‚ chastity‚ obedience‚ and stability. The Friar breaks many of these promised vows‚ and is the most immoral clergy member in The Canterbury Tales. Here are a few examples. First off‚ Chaucer states that “instead of weeping and
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workers. She tells Hans to precede the burning drummers to the Shrine. Through Hans’ sermon that he will take a lot of people to do their will by burning vanities and clean the sins of clergies‚ followers are inspired and aroused by Hans’ will. They are pious to the mother of God and they are willing to put off the clergies and nobilities. The way they can go through the spiritual process is to go on the pilgrimage to the shrine‚ Niklashausen‚ to get purification and releasing. Another rule‚ which
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their starving families. “The tallies and the feudal dues are crushing us” (Doc. 1). Taxation of the lands and homes of the people of the 3rd estate took away most of their money because they had to pay for the extravagant spending of the nobles and clergy. Jealousy was also an important factor to make people rise up against the king. Since they hated the extravagant lifestyle the king was living out of their money they rose up together against the king. “A crowd of angry women stormed the palace and
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government controlled society. According to document 5‚ France’s debt tripled when they supported the Americans in the American Revolution. With the country in a horrible crisis‚ they were in need money. Taxing their people was their solution. The Clergy and the Nobles‚ being the two richest classes‚ refused to pay even more taxes then they already did. King Louis the XVI lacked
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three major social groups. The first estate consisted of the clergy‚ the second estate consisted of the nobility‚ and the third estate consisted of the bourgeoisie‚ the sans-culottes or the working class‚ and the peasants. Each of these estates had a goal to acquire‚ for the most part‚ only that of the third estate fulfilled. Initially the French Revolution’s obligation was to bring about change in France‚ the first estate‚ or the clergy had no aspiration to change anything in France. Their main
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associated with “witchcraft”(pg 4). Hutchinson’s proclamation threatened the religious theory of Puritan New England and endangered the authority of the clergy‚ who had gain their power over its people as the “communicators of God”. If people could speak to God themselves they wouldn’t need the clergy anymore and the power and importance of the clergy would be diminished. This article gives me a better understanding of the Puritan
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Peasants‚ clergy and gentlemen were involved in the Pilgrimage of Grace. Each of these groups of people had a distinct part in the pilgrimage. Those who opposed the movement killed many of the rebels‚ as they feared the rebellion of authority. The participants of the Pilgrimage of Grace were concerned for their country and safety from enemies‚ and therefore‚ their goals were more representation‚ and a restoration of the Catholic organizations such as monasteries. The peasants and clergy were the
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There are many accounts of that day in November‚ 1095. Some were written by monks‚ others by bishops‚ and even a few by warriors themselves. Historians are constantly asking‚ "What exactly did Pope Urban II say at the council of Clermont to persuade Christians to set forth on such a difficult venture as the Crusades?" One man‚ an early 12th century cleric named Fulcher of Chartres wrote perhaps the best historical chronicle of the events at Clermont and the speech of Urban II.<br><br>Fulcher begins
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