English Reformation

where the Catholic Church had much power and reformation was a must and needed for a system that had lost its touch with the teachings of Jesus. Martin Luther became an important figure that is believed to have started the Reformation process of 1517. During this process he challenged, the process for the retribution of sins, sexuality amongst priest and nouns, and the denial of free will. All these contributions to Christianity, psychology and reformation lead him to be a part of history.…

Technology and the Profane Subjugation of Time in The Facebook Sonnet Technology and the Profane Subjugation of Time is a theory that shows that when we immerse ourselves in technology for a minute we lose the full experience of that minute. Say, for example someone goes to a concert, and that person spend the whole time filming the concert, but never actually understand the fullness of the experience. They spent the whole time looking through a phone's screen, so they never really got to…

The Protestant Reformation was the 16th century schism from the Catholic Church in Europe sparked by early Protestant Reformers like Martin Luther and Huldrych Zwingli. The political and social consequences of the Protestant Reformation during the first half of the 16th century benefitted and harmed Europe. Monarchial power expanded and rose throughout all of Europe while the church did just the opposite. Boys, girls, men and women each took on new roles in their social lives and political lives…

Seen as two different times in history, the Enlightenment and Romanticist periods are actually very close relatives of each other. During the Enlightenment period, time was ruled with logic and skepticism, always analyzing and looking for an answer through reason whether it is God or other matters. The Romanticism period focused mainly on the artistic, intellectual and literacy ideas of the time. The Romanticism ideas were birthed from the very womb of the Enlightenment therefore having some…

The histories of Anglicanism and Puritanism are significant. It is important that we learn about them, and how they have come into existence. Although the bases of these two religious views are the same, they differ in many beliefs. They are both renditions of Catholicism and Protestantism; Anglicanism is a spin-off of Protestant Catholicism, and Puritanism is a spin-off of Anglicanism. Both are belief systems that are branches of Catholicism, which is a branch of Christianity. To sum it all up,…

Considering the relationship between the evolving concept and power and the English monarch and the tensions of royal succession experienced in the Medieval to Early Modern period in England, as the concepts of power of the English Monarch changed over time, so did the underlying issues of succession. These simultaneous changes in the way monarchs viewed their roles and their responsibilities, the question of was it the concerns of royal succession that redefined the concepts of royal power and…

The Truth about the Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale “The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale” was written by Geoffrey Chaucer during his life time as a literary poet. He was born in the year 1340 and died in the year 1400. Chaucer was born during the late medieval period. He was able to serve under the aging king Edward III, his grandson Richard II and Henry IV. In late medieval England, people believed in a form of penance, in which a Christian confessed their sin to a priest as a sign of…

“I had this rare privilege of being able to pursue in my adult life, what had been my childhood dream.” This quote by Andrew Wiles might as well represent what happened to Patti and Robert in terms of their art, which seem to be the opposite of who they used to be as children. The book Just Kids explained how both Robert’s and Patti’s childhood influenced their work of art. Just Kids begins by explaining the core of Patti’s and Robert’s art, which is their childhood. Patti and Robert both come…

Weddings in the twenty-first century are quite different than what would have taken place in the time of Romeo and Juliet. Marriage has changed tremendously since Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet; arranged marriage has vanished, marriage customs have changed, and how much goes into preparing a wedding. In the fifteenth century most marriages were arranged by parents or relatives not by marriage. The purpose of arranged marriage was to transfer land and ownership or peace treaty between two…

As the Medieval Ages drew to a close, the Renaissance proved to be a time of great change in European history. During the Renaissance the old superstitions and ignorance, which defined the Middle Ages, were gradually shaken off and replaced with a newfound yearning for knowledge and wisdom. It was the beginning of the age of the printing press, which made book learning more commonplace and affordable for everyone. The middle class became richer, larger and greater amounts of people were allowed…