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    Challenging, fighting, finding, and understanding are just some of the things that Martin Luther had done throughout his life. In The Freedom of a Christian by Mark Tranvik, Mark gives us insight on the works and commitment Martin Luther demonstrated throughout his life. This book walks the reader step by step throughout Luther’s life, and struggles with the faith of Rome. In addition, to the struggle Martin Luther found it important to express his feelings about the Roman Catholic Church.…

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    Throughout the early middle ages the Vikings cruelly destroyed and ruined as they vanquished a great part of Europe, they have a reputation of strong and ruthless people. The incursions in Eurasia surely were cruel, and constructed a time of phobia and anxiety especially among religious people (monks). Monks remembered the predictions about wild tribes from Bible. They thought that these pagans punishment for bad actions from god. However, all military operations of Vikings were high…

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    fervor, and its policy shift towards knowledge will lead directly into the Renaissance. The two main facets to the Church’s positive impact on knowledge were preserving Classical knowledge through monasteries, and patronizing the arts. The Vatican mandated for libraries to be in all monasteries. Monasteries also housed artifacts from Greece and Rome, and monks were the philosophers and teachers of the era. Benedictine…

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    Sui Dynasty Research Paper

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    Tang dynasty which was brought from Persia. A Christian church and other religions were also established in china during the Tang dynasty. Xuanzang had a very eventful life full of traveling. At around 618 CE Xuanzang and his brother leave their monastery in Luoyang and set out for Chang’an which was 200 miles away. According to the book When Asia Was the World it said that “China in 618 CE was no place for peaceful monks” (Gordon, p. 1) this was because this was right at the collapse of the Sui…

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    Gregor Mendel Essay

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    graduated in 1840 with honors. Then enrolled in a two year program at the Philosophical Institute of the University of Olmutz he graduated the program in 1843. A Monk He began to study as a monk and then joined the Augustinian order at the St.Thomas monastery which was the center of cultural region.He was quickly exposed to research and teachings of its members and gained access to the monastery's huge library and experimental facilities.In…

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    Martin Luther's Life

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    subjects such as philosophy and theology, he decided to devote his life to God and become a monk. At the time of the Roman Catholic Church, people were told they needed to work hard or pay money for their sins to be forgiven. By doing this for the monastery, citizens lost their income because they would rather be forgiven their sins than earn a lot of money. Martin…

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    Galileo died in Artery Italy on January 8,1642.Galileo was 77 years old and he was the 7 oldest children. Galileo father was a musician and wool trader. Galileo father wanted Galileo to study medicine. Galileo want to study Jesuit monastery so he did study Jesuit monastery. Galileo was 17 year old he entered the University of Pisa to study medicine. Galileo invented and approve telescope. Galileo use the telescope to observe the first phase of…

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    miserable lives in poverty and had nothing to live for but the Church. However, regardless of a person’s social status, everyone was united under the hope to go to heaven. The Church during this time provided all of Europe’s education in their monasteries and universities. They also created and built unbelievably beautiful works of art in the forms of stained glass and architecture. Christianity became very popular with the early barbaric tribes. These tribes prayed for victory. The…

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    Monte Casino Case Study

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    unfortunately, in the south of Rome, the Pontine Marshes had been flooded by the Germans leaving the route impassable. The only other way to this terrain according to Katz, Robert (2003) was route six that passed through the Liri rivers valley. The monastery of Monte Cassino which is one of the most sacred sites to the Christians towered over the entrance to the valley. The Italians…

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    He became the abbot of a monastery in Subiaco, where he identified that the monk had diverse manners and rarely agreed on specific situations eventually leading him to be poisoned. Many individuals interested in his teachings during the time would see him and this lead to his formation of the twelve monasteries with twelve superior monks, he spent the rest of his life realizing the idea of monasticism. St Benedict was…

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