Inquisition

The Story of a Villain Most novels have the main character have the kindest soul who will salvage the world from all malevolent intent, but in The Young Elites by Marie Lu, the protagonist, Andelina Amourteru, becomes the root of hardship for her “friends.” In the made up country of Kenettra, an atrocious epidemic travels through, affecting all its citizens, young and old alike. If one survives, then he or she ends up with a marking and earns the title malfetto, and Adelina is one of them.…

balance with cancer patients being at an all time high. There is not enough oncologists to keep up. This portrays that the demand for oncologists will always be at an increased level. Which means if I were to search for a career as an oncologist the inquisition will be diminished, If I…

 Venice monopolized 1/8th of all printed books  Illustrations increased book sales  How did printing affect the world?  Governments printed laws, declarations of war, and propaganda  Book banning and illegal book smuggling occurred  Mass publication of the Bible Art and the Artist/Art and Power  The 3 capitals of renaissance art : Florence, Rome, and Venice  During the Middle Ages and 1400s, the main subject of art was religion  Religious art pieces were created to keep people in the…

Almost every educated person in the modern world has an understanding of who the devil is. Most people would describe the devil as a red-horned devil who resides over the fiery underworld called hell. The problem with their description of the devil is that the people before the first century a.d did not believe in a devil who was all-powerful and evil; they would have described him as either an angel who did God’s dirty work or a demon ruling over the cold hell with black features. The question…

Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe had different ways of expressing his constant struggles with everyday life through his work which shaped the way he wrote. Poe was a man with many challenges to overcome and with a little help of his deranged imagination produced infamous pieces of literature. In “A Tell Tale Heart,” “The Pit and the Pendulum,” and “The Masque of the Red Death” Edgar Allan Poe draws on his own experiences with mental illness and death to create unique works of gothic fiction that…

Anti- Semitism or prejudice of Jews, has distressed the world seemingly since the Middle Ages, particularly in the midst of the Holocaust. The Middle Ages were a discriminatory age for the Jewish people, when the Black Death epidemic, killed approximately twenty-five million people. The blame was given to the Jews after rumors spread that they deliberately poisoned the population through drinking wells. Later, the annihilation of Germany in World War I created a degraded economy and struggling…

in Spain on the 21st of May, 1527 in the province of Valladolid. And he died in 1598. He was the son of Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain, Charles V and Queen Isabella of Portugal. And Philip II was a strong catholic King of Spain who led the inquisition again the protestants. His reign as Spain’s king began in the Golden Age in the year of 1556 till 1598. However, his reign saw the economical problem and declined of Spain, which bankrupted five times in 1588 to 1598. This was partly because…

Ambivalent Conquests: Maya and Spaniard in Yucatan, 1517-1570 is centered around three Spaniards and their approach to Maya in the Yucatan Peninsula. Clendinnen weaves a tale of forced conversion, colonial power struggles, and mass torture, but she contextualized these horrors in a way that the rationales of the Spaniards do not get lost. However, the Maya side of the story gets lost with only one Maya figure, the resistance leader Nachi Cocom, emerges as an individual. The Catholic religion…

christianity; however, Spanish families feared the few people who still had a Jewish(Marranos) or Moorish(Moriscos) background. “Thousands of such persons were brought before the inquisition, where, as in the civil courts under the Roman procedure, torture could be employed to extort confessions” (Palmer Colton Kramer 74). These inquisitions led to the national and the catholic fusing together. Many events from the Renaissance influenced the way Europe is…

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…