Pope Leo X

In addition, to government control Louis XIV wanted religious control. He felt that the French Huguenots and the Protestants did not belong in France due to the fact that France was predominately Catholic (447). He abolished the Edict of Nanes, which allowed Huguenots and Protestants rights in France. In 1685, he published the Edict of Fontainebleau, which destroyed freedom of religion (447). Although, he was able to placed France in a powerful position, to the common people it meant nothing…

The prior rule of Constantine brought about the constructs of a New Rome and the usage of mosaics as a primary medium for church decoration. As we have seen before, emperors erected statues, monuments and various other symbols of themselves in order to solidify their rule over the people of their empire and prove their divine right to rule. Justinian’s rule started in 527 and this is where you will see him use the mosaics, the new found medium, to draw a connection between himself as emperor…

began to spread his faith to the people of Ireland. Where he is now named “ the founder of Irish Christianity”. Around the same time, the Irish monks were bringing their version of Christianity to the Anglo-Saxons of Britain, mostly put into place by Pope Gregory where he converted their king, King Ethelberg to Christianity where all of his people heart of his change and did the…

Rome was alluded to as the “mother of the world” because it was a center of civilization, erudition and administration, but the Western Roman Empire fell because of many reasons, such as poor administration in the 2nd and 3rd century, disease, foreign protectors, reduced Roman population and foreign invasion. After it fell in 410 A.D., the empire went into a time period known as the Dark Ages, where there were many downshifts in society. Some examples of the downshift in society’s progress…

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…

of Rome and the customs of various germanic tribes. 4. The three ways that civilization in western Europe declined after the Roman Empire fell arethe fall of cities, decline in education and disruption of trade. 5 .The most important achievement of Pope Gregory I is using church’s money to raise armies, repair roads and help poor and he made papacy a secular. Pg. 363 #2-5 2. Treaty of Verdun make the kindom apart, the…

Martin Luther was one of the religious leaders during this time. he didn't agree with the church he believed you should pray for forgiveness this caused several branches of christianity to spread around. Because the peasants were trying to overthrow the pope, chains broke loose , and several people were killed in the process. protestant reformation-…

In Murder in the Cathedral, the Archbishop Thomas Becket of Canterbury is in opposition to his society. Archbishop Thomas opposed the ideas of King Henry II and was exiled from England by the king himself. The king disliked Becket’s heavy religious beliefs and wanted to bring the church under his control. Becket showed total devotion to god, and the king believed that he was more powerful than god and should be treated as such. The society around Becket believes him to be mad to openly defy the…

The world “crusade” is a word we don't really hear a lot. We learn it in history, but some people don't even have a clue what a crusade even is, or where it originated from. A crusade is a medieval military expedition, one of a series made by Europeans to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries. The crusades involved men and women from every country in Europe. It affected almost every little thing of every day life It even affected the churches, it even…

The Catholic Church was powerful in the Middle Ages. One reason it was so powerful was the organization of the church. The Roman Catholic was organized into an elaborate hierarchy, with the pope as the head in western Europe, with different levels of leadership among the clergy. Individuals began to organize themselves into apostolic communities. The second reason the church was so powerful was wealth. Most people donated ten percent of their income to the church and the church did not pay…