Counter-Reformation

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the Church. With the writing of The Ninety-Five Theses, it sparked the awakening of the the epic Protestant Reformation. Millions of Europeans got their hands on his book and the call for reformation rang throughout the continent. New religious groups, like Lutherans and Calvinists were by far the…

which spurred an end to the toleration of the Roman Catholic Church in the 1520s. As a result, Europe would experience some of its biggest and bloodiest conflicts in history until the 1900s. During the 15th and early 16th centuries--before the Reformation would begin--the development of humanism into the European world, as well as the rediscovery of ancient Greek Classics--especially after the 1453 sack of Constantinople--would cause scholars like Lorenzo Valla and Desiderius Erasmus to exercise…

The Protestant Reformation was a major reform of the Christian church in response to problems that were found in the Catholic Church. Many people started to break away and form new Christian churches. The 1500s were times of alteration in and transformation of the church, and of social and political structures. Baptist, Anglican, Presbyterian and many other denominations of the protestant church are prominent in today’s society. However these types of churches did not always exist, and to…

The Protestant Reformation changed the course of history, leading to several conflicts between Catholics and Protestants, among those who defended the permanence of medieval society and those who wanted the freedom of a new era, a new model of society. This paper describes and analyzes the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century and its political impact within the complex religious, social, political and intellectual context that lived Europe then. The text considers the causes of this…

From 1450 all the way into the 18th century, the early modern period is understood and seen as the formation of the Renaissance, many scientific and technological discoveries and reformation. There were many discoveries of new lands, machines and cultures which became one of the main reasons on how society today has improved. The Renaissance started as a cultural movement based on the intellectual basis of its own version of Humanism, where Man is the measure of all things. This idea became…

The baroque style was established in the seventeenth century in order for the catholic church to win back the citizens who were being converted to the protestant reformation. Therefore, the church turned their artistic expression into a more extravagant, grandiose style. Viewers were now being emotionally drawn to the sensual attitudes of the churches. The style of this period would then be called Baroque. Which is the term that’s name was taken from the Portuguese barroco, which is a deformed…

somewhere around 1545 and 1563 in various separate and unpredictable sessions. The Council of Trent predictably detailed the official reaction of the Catholic Church to the Protestant Reformation; the measures conceded to are referred to aggregately as the Counter-Reformation. Essentially, he was against the Protestant Reformation. Furthermore, he ended the fighting with German rulers by agreeing with the German princes that the religious beliefs of each prince would determine which religion. He…

To what extent were women actively involved in religious reforms during the sixteenth century? The Reformation was a period of overwhelming and extreme religious change throughout Europe in the sixteenth century. Although the major influences within the period of change were male, the Reformation also promoted a new standard for the roles of women in society, and through this, influenced the ways in which women shaped their identity as devout people. Despite the fact that women were actively…

describe the style of art that was mostly used all Western Europe. It was a special movement that was based on extravagant living and theatrical display. These features started to be all over Italy and Spain in which it was associated to the catholic reformation. Additionally, it became a big thing all over France in the seventeenth century. Across all over Europe, baroque help changed the idea of vocal music and gave it a new color and new form. Such as opera and oratorio, and the rising of…