Chapter 9 CONFRONTATION AT RUNNYMEDE Pope Innocent’s controversy with King John was concerning the appointment of an archbishop at Canterbury. An interdict had lasted in England for seven years and seemed to have no effect. When an interdict had earlier been imposed on France‚ King Philip submitted in just over one year. The excommunication of such a pagan as John seemed to the Pope to be of minor effectiveness as well. Innocent was looking for a way to end this long conflict in a way that would
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AN ANALYSIS OF POPE JOAN’S LIFE: A FOCUS ON GENDER ISSUES ABSTRACT The researcher analyzed Pope Joan’s life focusing on gender issues. The novel Pope joan written by donna wool folk cross is one of the keys to find the most important information and thus answer the questions and attain the objective of the study‚ also to gather the needed data library research and browsing various websites were done. This study aims to show how the pope upheld her empowerment in three levels of equality: conscientization
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COURSE 5: The Issue of Bad Writing in Swift and Pope The eighteenth century witnessed a major revolution‚ in some ways more profound than the Civil War‚ the Printing Trade. It was a state of anarchy within which struggling writers‚ who came from the lower strata‚ were writing in journals‚ newspapers‚ magazines etc. Great consumption of these kinds of writings led to the formation of the Grub Street (a London Street inhabited by literary hacks such as writers of small histories‚ dictionaries and
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analyse are Catherine of Siena: Letter 74 To Pope Gregory XI‚ in Avignon and Jean Froissart: On The Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453). As a woman‚ Catherine was an influential person religiously‚ which was not common during this period. Catherine of Siena‚ a servant to the poor and sick and a spiritualist‚[1] encouraged Pope Gregory XI to return to Rome because she believed the Papacy did not belong in Avignon‚ but belonged in Rome [2]. She convinced the Pope to return to Rome by referring to the Bible
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Pope Urban’s speech attempted to get people to please the God by following his law. By following his rules‚ he was able to get the church more power by making people terrified by the thought of going to hell. The only possible way for people to achieve that goal is by going to the crusade and annihilating all Non-Christians to take Jerusalem. During Pope Urban’s speech‚ he said‚ “.. if there is any deformity or crookedness contrary to God’s law‚ with divine help I will do my best to remove it” because
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Pope Urban II Rough draft Pope Urban II was born Otho de Lagery‚ sometime in 1042‚ as the second son to his family of Noble parents. He was from the Champagne region of France. This automatically meant that he was to be a part of the church. He was the head of the Catholic Church from 1088-1099. He had developed ecclesiastical reforms as a continuation of the reforms begun by Pope Gregory VII. Before he was Pope‚ he was a monk. Urban II eventually traveled to Rome where he would become the cardinal
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In the speech given by Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont‚ he focuses on several topics. He reminds the clergymen of their duties to glorify God and lead their flock. He complains about the fighting the Frankish Christians are doing among themselves. He admonishes his audience to remember and live up to the level of faith their ancestors showed. He‚ also‚ made several points about the challenges in the East and why the Franks should become involved. • The fight for Christianity in the
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1. Pope St. Gregory The Great I. Brief Biography St. Gregory‚ born at Rome about the year 540‚ was the son of Gordianus‚ a wealthy senator‚ who later renounced the world and became one of the seven deacons of Rome. He is also known as St. Gregory the Dialogist in Eastern Orthodoxy because of his Dialogues. The Pope‚ recognizing his talent‚ was named as one of the seven deacons of Rome and then sent him on a diplomatic mission as papal legate to the imperial city of Constantinople where he
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19 March 2013 Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and Election of Pope Francis The resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and the election of Pope Francis are getting to be a pretty big deal around the world. Pope Benedict XVI was born under the name Joseph Ratzinger on April 16‚ 1927 in Marktl am Inn‚ Bavaria Germany. He grew up under war and reparation from World War I. He was briefly a member of the Hitler Youth in his early teenage years. He turned to theology studies after the war. His father was
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Born as Lotario di Segni‚ Pope Innocent III was the son of a count and a noble Roman family. As a young man‚ Pope Innocent III studied theology in Paris‚ which at the time was the center of theological studies. He served as the Pope from 1198 to 1216 and is known for expanding and reestablishing the Pope’s authority over the Papal States‚ launching crusades‚ and reforming the church. During the years between 1203 and 1204 Pope Innocent III wrote advice letters to powerful church members from England
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