Pope Urban VI

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…

were the rules all calvinist had to follow. Martin Luther and John calvin carried more similar views on politacal authorant than social order. Luther and Calvin both agreed on that they both did not agree with the politcal and social power of the pope and belived his ruling towards faith was not “fair. Martin Luther and John Calvin held more similar views on political authority than that of social order. Luther and Calvin were both theolgy were protestant…

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…

church can give salvation. Luther included this in his thesis to describe how God has the true power within the Church, not the pope or clergymen. Before the Reformation period and the Black Death, many people blindly followed the church. After seeing the cruelty of death and splitting of Christianity and Roman Catholics, people began to turn against the church. The pope was the most powerful at the time when many people thought he was essentially a God walking on here and respected him like a…

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…

throughout his reign the champion of Christianity. He never rested until the Saxons were not only subjected, but baptized, if not Christianized; his war against the Lombards, whose kingdom he finally annexed, was originally commenced at the instance of the pope, whose power was menaced by the roads of the se barbarians. It cannot be denied, however, that…

reputation as the leading school of theological and philosophical studies, and Wycliffe stood out for his intellect and reasoning. Much of Wycliffe’s adult life was influenced by the Avignon papacy controversy; which began in 1309 when the French Pope Clement V chose the city of Avignon for the seat of the papacy instead of Rome. It remained in France under…