Christendom

Lazio is also known as Latium. It is located in center of Italy and it is home to the capital city of Rome. Lazio is the third most populated region in Italy it has 5,732,212 population in 2011 estimation. The region total area is 6,655 sq mi. Shares it's bounded by the Apennine Mountains to the east and the Tyrrhenian coast to the west, Lazio is occupied with woods and pastures, hills and valleys, rivers and lakes, and as many as twenty-five nature parks and reserves. Lazio experienced a rush…

The First Crusade, also the most successful, began with the speech of Pope Urban II at Clermont on 27 November 1095, and was initially a response to the request for armed aid against the Turks made by the Byzantine Emperor Alexius I. However, its purpose quickly shifted and it in turn became the largest mass pilgrimage of the eleventh century, though it differed from all the others in once crucial respect, in that it was, at the same time, a war, one set against what was by some referred to as…

Emperor was both dominus mundi and animate lex (legality personified). Moreover, Dante greatly expanded the concept of the individual citizen, collecting it into the humana civilitas. Therefore, Dante’s ‘Roman’ was a citizen of something beyond Christendom, a world-government which encompassed the entire human race. The practical realisation of this was that, rulers, such a King Robert of Naples, were subject to the emperor and the empire, not just because of their Christian faith, but simply…

Divine Spirit, Suger’s new choir was filled with light. Saint Denis Abbey’s newly designed choir would herald a revolution in architecture which would ripple throughout the culture of Christendom. The Italians would call the style Gothic. Gothic, meant as a slight, was so named to suggest that the culture of Christendom had been destroyed by the Goth barbarians. However, the influence of opus modernum, modern work, would change more than the architecture of churches in Europe. The Gothic style…

Jerusalem, prepared to die on the way, and above all looking to secure his place in the kingdom of heaven. To get closer to understanding the truth about the crusaders’ motives it is important to try and understand the religious culture of 11th century Christendom, why they felt the need to leave when they did, and the type of individuals who made up the giant force that set out for the Holy Lands. It was a combination of these factors that led to the First Crusade and gave the first crusading…

eliminating the power that the Spiritual estate seemingly had over the temporal state. Throughout To the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, Luther portrays the three walls as the Roman Catholic Church’s attempt to delay transformation within the Christendom. Luther displays a great deal of worry for the future of the Church, concerning their distinct confinement behind the dominating walls of the Roman Church. In an attempt to make Catholicism more accessible to the general public,…

for unprecedented world trade and the spread of many East Asian technologies to the West (ex. Gunpowder & Bubonic Plague) 3. The Crusaders vs. Anybody not Christian The Crusaders were initially called in by your friends the Byzantines to save Christendom from Islamic invaders. But, it turned into a quest to regain the holy land; which they did for about a century. The real influence here is that Europe got to see first hand how a first-class global society (Byzantines or Islamic Caliphates)…

The Eastern Orthodox and Western diasporas struggled to ascertain a firm spiritual devotion for all of Christendom. Although the pursuit in isolation was ideal for the monastic’s, the rules written in ‘The Sayings of the Desert Fathers,’ expanded to other communities in order to spread the faith. Eastern monastic traditions and the Rule of St. Benedict were…

November . It is a rare occasion when the pope leaves Italy, so this was a momentous time in itself already. Pope Urban II sanctioned the crusade because he had received a letter from Alexios I Komnenos whom is the Byzantine emperor from the Eastern Christendom pleading for help because the Turks were advancing fast into their heartland after already taking over several outlying cities . With no hesitation Urban began to desperately preach to all willing crusaders in December 1095 and with the…

shows how Shakespeare did not play her as a damsel in distress but as a strong, independent woman. Minton also presents Petruchio as not a misogynist because he compliments Kate from the beginning. Petruchio says, “But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom” (II.i.181).…