Pope John XXIII

physical world in art. The Renaissance period experienced the rebirth of the realistic description of nature and the human figure by artists inspired by ancient Greek and Roman art and culture. Paradise Lost is a epic poem of the XVII century, written by John Milton, published in 1667. Milton built a solid…

The Renaissance and the Reformation were two of the most cataclysmic time periods in western civilization. Following a period known as the “Dark” or “Middle” Ages, the Renaissance and Reformation were critical in shaping the course of human history. The Middle Ages was a period in Europe that was centered around the Church and its affairs. Following this heavily religious time period, the Renaissance and Reformation brought a new emphasis on the individual. Human capacity and reason were…

The Early Medieval period can be understood as the period lying between the ancient and the medieval. This era like the ‘Ancient’ and the ‘Modern’ has a personality of its own because it was not merely a period of time between the 4th-5th century and the 12th century but one that marked the transition between the ancient and modern world. The early medieval age in India was an era which showed immense transition, developments in the society’s social, economic and political field and drastic…

A few weeks ago, I wrote an essay that tied into the SLE of being a Committed Catholic where I highlighted the violence in racism and why we shouldn’t be racist to one another. I wrote it for the Maryknoll Essay contest, which called students, “to take a clear stand for creative and active nonviolence and against all forms of violence.” The SLE bullet points that I thought most tied into this essay were understanding and being able to explain Catholic beliefs and being able to live as Jesus…

Urgains G Vilsaint The trading of Guns, the Protestant Reformation, and the Ming Dynasty changed the world positively and negatively. Without these events, the face of the world would not have been the same. Since the 1450’s to today, one of the main things that has changes and shaped the world is the trade of guns and gun powder. Guns are good because they help Countries take over territories. Hernando Cortez used guns on his travelled and with the help of horses, diseases and guns he was…

Document Based Essay Question: Religious Tolerance Though there was a major split between the Catholic and Orthodox Church in the 11th century, there was another split between Catholics and Protestants. A Protestant is any Christian that is neither Catholic nor Orthodox. This splitting occurred when a reformer known as Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses in 1517. However, religious tolerance remained a controversial topic. In early modern Europe, most states had an established church supported…

the behest of the Pope, Urban II, a large group of French nobles went to try to recapture Jerusalem. The First Crusade was a war that was fought by French nobles at the behest of Pope Urban II, in which they successfully conquered Jerusalem, but it most lasting effect was the strengthening of the Catholic Church The First Crusade arose from Pope Urban II’s aspiration to harness worldly power for the Church. In the mid-1090s, Emperor Alexios I of Byzantium sent a letter to the Pope requesting…

All President’s Men and Spotlight are films about two important scandals of corruption that affected two powerful American institutions: the government and the Catholic church. However, both films instead of focusing on the scandals themselves, they narrate it from the perspective of the journalists who investigate both cases. As Renée Loth says in one of her articles “both films are talky, true-life procedurals about the grinding, essential work of investigative journalism”. They are about the…

Despite the extensive presence of the Catholic church in the late Middle Ages, it seems as though society was still fixated on the opposition between Fortune and free will. It is common knowledge that Christianity preached free will to its people, and that the idea of Fortune or fatalism was a pagan idea condemned by the Church. Fortune as a concept, then, could only be explored through writing. Geoffrey Chaucer was one of many writers who wrestled with the opposition between free will and…

The sixteenth century began in France as a time of peace, prosperity and full of optimism, but this soon changed to Civil War due to religious schism, with the Royal Family were very much involved. According to Barbara B. Diendorf, a Professor of History at the University of California, theologians in France "condemned Martin Luther's ideas"[1] but noted that his views continued to spread throughout France during the first part of the Century. The movement supporting Luther's ideas remained…