Pope Celestine V

in The Pardoner’s Tale. “Ther cam a privee theef men clepeth Deeth/ That in this contree al the peple sleeth,” (Ackroyd 15). The Plague happened six times during Chaucer’s lifetime. During the time of the Plague” the widespread fear of death and sense of helplessness that people often felt when faced with the threat of such a disease, caused people to react in different ways,” (Rossignol 37). Some people responded to the threat of the Plaque by indulging themselves and “living it up” in a…

The Carolingian Empire and Ottonian Empire each occurred successively. Starting in the second half of the eighth century with the dynasty known today as Carolingian. Then culminating with the Ottonians as they were being established as the Holy Roman Empire. These empires were located in western Germany, France, and northern Italy. The Carolingian dynasty that was led by Charlemagne and his heirs used illustrated books to better develop Christianity’s exposure among their people which helped…

the only reason and motivation of the crusade was religion whereas Ronald Finucane believes greed of wealth was the motivation to join crusade. Hans believes the crusade was called by the pope urban II. He asked Christians to join crusades to free holy land from Muslim. Who had occupied the holy land. The pope said if Christian helps free the land, god would forgive their sins that they may have committed. They will also be rewarded after life. In contrast Ronald believes that people joined…

(Maurice Duplessis in the election in 1952 campaigning) Maurice Duplessis and the Great Darkness (1944-1959) Maurice Duplessis was Premier of Quebec from 1944-1959 and led the Union Nationale political party. He was a Quebec nationalist and believed that Quebec should be a distinctive society, that it should be a nation instead of a Canadian province. Soon Duplessis created a new flag just for Quebec that had the fleur-de-lys, which, was a French symbol. This pushed Canadians apart because soon…

Explaining the Protestant Reformation: The most important aspects of the Protestant Reformation are Martin Luther's 95 thesis, those who supported Martin Luther and why, diet of worms, importance of Huldrych Zwingli, Catholic counter-reformation, and Council of Trent. These are the most important aspects of the Protestant Reformation because they are the key events or elements that lead up to and helped complete the Protestant Reformation. Martin Luther's 95 thesis is a list of abuses Martin…

The split of the Roman Empire into two divisions– eastern and western empires, were the results of the quick growth of the Roman Empire. Because of this growth, successful rule of each area was becoming difficult. In hope to maintain order, Emperor Diocletian came to the conclusion around 285 CE that the best solution to this problem would be to split the Roman Empire . The eastern part of the Roman Empire, know as the Byzantine Empire, was founded by Constantine the Great in 330 AD and had a…

The article I will be reviewing is Sacrifice and Pagan Belief in Fifth- and Sixth-Century Byzantium by K. W. Harl. The article was published in the Past & Present academic journal in August 1990. The topic is what happened Pagan beliefs and the art of Pagan sacrifice starting around 300AD to around 600AD. K. W. Harl is writing this article to state that the conversion of Pagan beliefs and Pagan sacrifices to Christian beliefs and Christian values was a song, slow process that started in the…

My favorite text from this semester was the story called “The Pardoner’s Tale” by Geoffrey Chaucer. This is my first favorite text from the semester because of how much Chaucer uses the character of the Pardoner to attack the Roman Catholic church. He makes the character of the Pardoner and Summoner very greedy; just as the church was in the 1300’s of Chaucer’s time. As history will already tell, the Roman Catholic church was greedy during the Middle Ages or Dark Ages. So this fits well into the…

Most people say it’s not person who are the change of the view of the people because any other person could have done that action. I say the person is more important. Why? Because it wasn’t anyone else. It was that person. For example, if Martin Luther wasn’t the one to nail his 95 thesis then would the people who went to follow that person still be called a Lutheran? No they would be called whatever the person who stood up to the church’s name would most likely be. But, because of Luther the…

declared himself the Head of the Church of England (Anglican Church), in effect, replacing the Pope. He quickly closed down monasteries and took all of their money. This caused a rebellion, but Henry stopped it as he became more powerful. The rise of the Church of England began when King Henry VIII started to undermine the authority of the Catholic Church in England, for political reasons of his own. After Pope Clement II declined Henry VIII an annulment from his wife Catherine…