In this essay I am going to talk about a few things.A few things i’m going to talk about is the protestant reformation‚counter reformation‚and the english reformation.I will also be touching on Martin Luther‚the war of religions ‚and I will be talking about the catholic church.I will be putting mostly fact and not many opinions.One opinion i’m going to put in now is that I don’t like history. The protestant reformation lasted from 1517-1648.It started with Martin Luther when he was studying the bible
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St B | What were the Immediate Causes of the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre? | Document Sources 15‚16‚17‚18 | | Travis Bontorin | 10/24/2012 | The immediate causes of the Saint Bartholomew’s day massacre‚ 1572 using the sources from Barbara Diefendorf’s “The Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre‚ A Brief History with Documents. | Since the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre there has been a great deal of controversy over the causes and blame of the historic crisis. Any religious dispute
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of religion which had temporarily abated‚ Dubois fled to Lausanne‚ then Geneva to escape. It was in Calvin’s capital where a Lyonnais banker‚ fellow Huguenot‚ and friend of Dubois’s commissioned the painting in order to commemorate the slaughter. Considering its provenance‚ the alarming and emotive nature of the painting is unsurprising. 2000 Huguenots were killed in Paris alone‚ many more died as the religious fervour spread to the outlying towns. Massacre
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the position by Pope Gregory XV. One event that made the people of France dislike Cardinal Richelieu‚ was the attack on the Huguenots. The Huguenots were French Protestants who were threatening France’s safety. In an attempt to raise France’s international status‚ Richelieu was at first willing to tolerate the Huguenots if they were loyal to France. However‚ the Huguenots would often rebel and show no loyalty to France. Richelieu
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Catholics and Protestants‚ called Huguenots‚ which mainly referred to French Calvinists. Catherine de Medici‚ the mother of the young king Charles IX hit upon a plan to finally exterminate the Protestants; she proposed that a marriage should be arranged between Margaret‚ the catholic sister of King Charles‚ and Henry de Bourbon‚ the Huguenot king of Navarre. All the notable leaders of the land were invited to the wedding including Gaspard de Coligny the foremost Huguenot. The stage was for one of the
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etc. This village tradition proved to clash with the beliefs of the Protestant Huguenots and the village’s Catholic priest. The tension between the priest and the Huguenots was not an unprovoked event‚ as the Huguenots were seen disregarding the priest’s religious practices‚ confidentiality‚ and beliefs. Although he could not do anything about it‚ the priest was obviously very upset with this‚ his resent for the Huguenots showing throughout the
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when Henry of Navarre converted to Catholicism and crowned Henry IV. Many French leaders at the time did not like the Huguenots for they were not part of the Catholic religion and were afraid they would disrupt the monarchy. Fearing that she would be caught for her attempt on Coligny’s life‚ Médicis came up with a plan involving the nobles at Tuileries Palace to get rid of the Huguenot leaders in Paris. These leaders were in Paris to witness the marriage of Catherine’s daughter‚ Margaret of France‚
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country - not only because of his role as a king‚ but also for the people and the country which he was concerned. But was it really appalling? The Catholics and the Huguenots did not have a good relationship with each other (Wikipedia‚ French Wars of Religion‚ 2004). The Edict of Nantes was implemented to give religious rights to the Huguenots (Wikipedia‚ Edict of Nantes‚ 2004); what kind of effect would this place onto the Catholics? It should not be alarming that the Edict of Nantes raised the anger
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One king‚ one faith was the model of western Europe where the religion of the ruler should also be the religion of the people under the ruler. In the case of the Holy Roman Empire‚ the religion “should” have been Catholic if following the one king‚ one faith model. The problem with the one king‚ one faith model was that the political leaders of the day were emphatic in expressing intolerance of the religious practices of others. A prime example is Charles V‚ the Holy Roman Emperor‚ who once referred
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| |moderation and compromise on religious matters |Anti-Protestant Measures and the struggle for political power | | |French Protestants are known as Huguenots. | | |They were persecuted by the
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