Pope Martin IV

History is filled with lost cultures. Victims of their own oral historical traditions, and without literature of their own these cultures suffer the mercy of neighbors and in many cases enemies. Obscured by half-truths and hateful rhetoric written by enemies, much of their heritage is lost in time. Historians and archeologists working with incomplete manuscripts, biased histories, and ancient graves are challenged to discover the true nature of these lost cultures. The subject of this effort is…

Critical Thinking Question By Kristen 1050 words To what extent was Europe's Renaissance and its worldview both the same and different than Europe's Medieval period and its worldview? Include lots of support, examples, details, and evidence to explain your thinking. Introduction The medieval period and Renaissance worldviews can be compared and contrasted with many different reasons. From the church and religion to the art from these two periods. There were also royalty and science…

most likely because of what I have stated before that the only religion kingdoms accepted was Christianity (Alchin). There were even classes when it came to religion because of feudalism. The pope was the head spiritual leader of the Roman Catholic church, next is the cardinals who were to elect the pope. Archbishops were the spiritual leaders and a bishops were spiritual leaders of the…

During the middle ages, the Roman Catholic Church became the dominant power in Europe. The church becoming the established rule, Christianity starts working it's way into the daily lives of medieval people. This era of Christianity helped shaped the ways in which western medieval culture was built. Christian influence on the medieval people's beliefs, values, and behaviors quickly became fixed into medieval society. The Christian religion impacted medieval culture in many ways, primarily through…

between the Pope and the Byzantine Empire; whether that may be the Iconoclast Controversy which sparked a public opposition of the use of images in church practices or the Schism of 1054 causing the separation between the Eastern Christian churches and the Western church. The tensions between the Papacy and the Byzantine Empire reached a high during this…

wide are of land, and many feudal lords felt closer ties to the Pope than to their King. Several items led to a decline in feudalism by the end of the Middle Ages. The Black Death or plague killed hundreds of thousands in Europe. This decreased the number of serfs available to work the land and support the lords. The Crusades also distracted the lords from managing their lands. The feudal system was further weakened as the Pope called on lords to recruit people for the holy wars in the…

Tartuffe is a great example of someone willing to do whatever it takes to get what they want. They are the people who are willing to completely destroy other people's lives so that they can be ahead. Tartuffe is an example of how such greed and ignorance was used against people listening to a sermon in a church. It could be said that Wall Street bankers are a near perfect example of someone possessing those characteristics today. There are many more ways that people have infiltrated our lives…

“Deus Veult!"- God wills it! cried Pope Urban II’s audience in 1095 at The Council of Clermont. This Papal sanction supposedly initiated the beginning of the First Crusade; a holy war designed to recapture Jerusalem in August 1096. Byzantine Emperor of Constantinople; Alexios I Komnenos appealed to Urban to request aid to resist the Seljuk Turks who occupied Antolia and the majority of Asian Minor. Pope Urban’s unusually secular desire for a legacy may have been a partial motivation for his…

The Middle Ages were a time of chaos and inequality. Royalty was an outstanding aspect of the culture, religion played a large role during this time, and women were not treated fairly compared to men in society. Thomas a’ Becket was a man in Canterbury, who was in the eye of King Henry II. Initially this was a good thing because Henry admired Becket so much that he made him Chancellor after seeing him achieve different missions for Theobald, the current archbishop. As Becket’s and Henry’s…

they were to be separated from society because they were disease whether of the soul or of the body (Moore 10). Efforts such as this were not entirely with in the Church. For example, the first Europe wide effort against heretics was co-created by Pope Lucius III and emperor Frederick Barbarossa in the bull ad abolendam (Moore 8). This is essential considering the Church could not deliver the death penalty but the secular system…