Pope Leo X

“Out of the Flames: The Remarkable story of a fearless scholar, a fatal heresy, One of the rarest books in the world” is a novel written by Nancy L. Goldstone. The novel is set in the period of the Renaissance, a time of which the old ideas were starting to be questioned and new ideas were being developed. The novel is about a conflict between a man named Michael Servetus and the Roman Catholic Church. Servetus is a man of science and theology, a Renaissance man and a well respected physician.…

Nordic History Most know of the five main Nordic countries- Finland, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, and Norway. They all took important places in history, and changed our society in ways that some will notice, and some won’t. Really, it’s important to learn about what happened before, in history so it doesn’t repeat right under our noses, so we need to notice these mistakes and victories, and take a look, a very good look, at a history of the Nordic countries. The Viking Age ( approx. 800 - 1050 AD…

The Puritans came to America in the 1630’s, and these Puritans left their mark on their new land, becoming the most dynamic Christian force in the American colonies. Puritanism was a religious reform movement that began within the Church of England in the late sixteenth century. Under persecution from the church and the crown, they sent an fleet of ships in the 30’s and 40’s of the seventeenth century to the northern English colonies in the New World–a migration that laid the foundation for the…

Martin Luther was born during a time 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…

did just the opposite. Boys, girls, men and women each took on new roles in their social lives and political lives. New religious practices started to rise, and people adopted to never before seen practices. Before the Protestant Reformation, the Pope ruled in all of Western Christendom with a volume of power. Christendom, also known as the Christian Kingdom is the total of all the nations where…

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,…

Charlemagne, known as Charles the Great or King of the Franks, was a strong leader who united Western Europe through his military power. His major goals or achievements were the Carolingian Empire, Saxons War, and establishing centralized imperial rule. I consider that Charlemagne is a good leader and will go down in history. The first of Charlemagne’s accomplishments was the Carolingian Empire. Charles the Great ruled after his father Charles Martel. Charlemagne built a court and capital at…

For centuries, the papacy and the pope have been around and are a significant aspect of the Italian culture and history. According to Catholic tradition, Jesus founded the papacy in the first century, when he chose St. Peter, the leader of the apostles, to be his earthly representative. "Thou art Peter and upon this rock I will build my church," he states in chapter 16 of Matthew. "I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven." Those words, which now circle the dome of St. Peter's…

perceived wisdom of the High Middle Ages. Particularly disastrous, as Rabb notes, was the reign of Pope Boniface VIII. During his time as pope, monarchs in France and England began taxing the church, mostly to fund their ongoing wars against one another. Naturally, Pope Boniface VIII took a strong stance against this, and as a result he made a formal declaration that monarchs were subordinate to the power of a Pope. His statement was largely deemed laughable by kings throughout Europe, and when…