flocks‚ crops‚ and even people to the church. This is why the church controlled most of the land through the MA and renaissance. With the land of power and money the church could control kings and countries. The pope had great influence over kings and people. Anyone who was against the pope‚ had the power to excommunicate. Which meant that the person could not attend church services or sacraments‚ and once they die they were shunned to hell. This was especially important because everyone believed in
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monasteries‚ reinstate the pope as the head of the church‚ and to get rid of protestant officials in the government. The Kings response was at first to try and placate the masses but later on he set out to just quell the "rebellion" through public trials. The Pilgrimage of Grace was a multi-class uprising as shown in (Doc 10) and was one of the first time that many of these social groups came together under one banner and fought for one cause .The Pilgrimage sought to restore the Pope as the head of the
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After Christopher Columbus’s exploration in 1492‚ a widespread colonization occurred because of the wonderful opportunities the New World promised to the European countries. While sharing a continent‚ the Spanish and New England colonies had major similarities and a plethora amount of differences. The Spanish and New England colonies shared significant similarities with the treatment of the natives‚ yet these colonies had extreme differences with the role of religion and the control of European government
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Key Ingredients that Engendered the Protestant Reformation Since the foundations of the Christian faith‚ the Catholic denomination has consistently been the most powerful and largest church community. The Pope held supreme religious power over the world and eventually held position as an important governmental figure. Throughout the times of the Middle Ages and Renaissance the Roman Catholic Church was the central basis and concern for all people. They forced people to obey their laws and pay sums
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the Kings of Medieval Europe. This really shows how important religion was to the people‚ and the Church was the only path to religion. The head of the Church was known as the Pope. The Pope was regarded as being Gods representative. This gave him a huge amount of power and importance. Anyone who turned against the Pope would be banned from the Church and go straight to hell when they died. As this was a time when everyone believed in Heaven and Hell‚ and everyone attended the Church this was considered
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for a short time before the foothold was lost to the Muslims •The Byzantines faced the threat of invasion from the north (the Germanic tribes) and from the south (the Slavs and the Turkic people) •Over time in the empire‚ the relations between the Pope and the princes worsened •The great schism between the Latin Church and the Orthodox Church took place in 1054‚ a split that still exists today. B.Society and Urban Life •The economic wealth and late Roman Imperial system in the east initially
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is neither the Cathedral of the Pope nor the mother church of Roman Catholicism‚ it is still regarded as one of the holiest Catholic locations. St. Peter’s Basilica is named so because it is the burial site of Saint Peter‚ one of the twelve apostles. There has been a church on this site since the fourth century and many new Popes were interred there‚ as Saint Peter’s tomb is located directly beneath the structure. At the beginning of the sixteenth century‚ Pope Julius II commissioned Bramante
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(Mary I)‚ Henry wanted a son to succeed him on the thrown and Catherine was unable to give him anymore children. Henry also wanted to marry his lover‚ Anne Boleyn but her nephew‚ Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was strongly opposed and he was holding Pope Clement VIII prisoner so he could not approve the divorce without displeasing his captor. Another obvious reason was to do with religion. Henry may have been sympathetic to ideas of protestant‚ Martin Luther and therefore rejected Catholicism. It
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The causes of European the Renaissance are many‚ each very important. However‚ there are three which are the most significant: The rise of cities‚ an increase in public education‚ and the realization of the corruption of the church‚ which at that time dominated society. These causes were linked in many ways. Cities began to become larger and a more popular place to live in the early fourteenth century. People‚ namely surfs‚ began moving out of the manors and in to the cities. Cities allowed and
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The Medieval times and the Renaissance each had their separate views of humanism. The Renaissance rejected all beliefs and ideas that the Medieval times had developed. Medieval times thought that the human body and individualism were sinful while Renaissance thinkers said that individualism should be glorified. The main complaints made against the church were corruption and hypocrisy within the clergy. These complaints reflected the Renaissance ideas of individualism in that the clergy thought that
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