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    Indulgences are one of the most controversial traditions in the Catholic Church. They have impacted the Church for hundreds of years and were a major factor in the Protestant schism within Christianity. Indulgences have had positive results but are often abused. The Church’s Confession of Faith (CCF) is a reliable source for a detailed explanation of what indulgences are and how they work, but fails to capture the importance of indulgences in a historical context and their impact on Christianity…

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    Martin Luther, who wrote the Ninety-Five Theses of 1517, created the anti-Catholic rebellion. His perspective on religion was against everything that Catholicism taught. He believed that if a person imagines that they are going to be saved by good deeds, “falls as uneasily as he who falls from the true service of God to idolatry.” Good works, such as ceremonies and attendance to Mass, are idolizing God. To Martin this was the wrong way to approach religion. The main problems with the Roman…

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    Throughout medieval times, variables such as wealth, gender roles and the growing concern of witchcraft challenged the authority of the Church. Because each of these themes are unique to their circumstances and elicited different if not similar responses from both those involved and those observing, it is relevant to detect and understand why these different events took place, and what became of the people who drove these actions. In chapters four, five and six of Deane’s A History of Medieval…

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    How did religion affect medieval literature? Well it can be thought of as a set of rules, ideas and beliefs. This affected the everyday life of individuals and communities and in turn affected the literature of the time as well. If someone believes a certain thing and acts in the way they believe and thinks in the way they act then more than likely they will have influences of what they believe in their literature. So in turn religion was used as a tool to control people and the literature of…

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    In Martin Luther’s letter, “Open Letter to Christian Nobility”, it appears Martin Luther seems to have some serious complaints in regards to the Roman Catholic Church functions. Luther appears a bit discontent with hierarchy system that seems to prevent and separate others, such as farmworkers, smiths, etc. from truly being able to encounter the fullness of God. In this letter Luther opens up with three major shortcomings that Catholic Church was displaying during Luther’s time. Those three…

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    Historically, great animosity has existed between the Irish and the English. A Modest Proposal was written by Johnathan Swift in 1729 during a turbulent period in relations between the Irish and English. This essay relies on satire to state Swift’s opinion on both the Irish and English. He makes the extreme proposal of having Irish children be sold as food to the English to solve economic and social problems in each nation. Swift grew us in a unique situation due to being born to English parents…

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    against the church's ways, but they were afraid it would impact their chances of going to heaven, until a guy named Martin Luther protested against the church. Luther goes against the church's teachings and corruption which sparked the Protestant Reformation. The Protestant Reformation have changed the course of history for nations and the people. The church became corrupt, priests were dishonest, the church got wealthy by selling indulgences, ripping people off of their money, and the church…

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    The puritan settlers were not the first colonists arriving in the Americas; Columbus’ discovery had paved the way for them the new land. The first pilgrims also known as puritans set out in the early 1600 from England to claim a new land where they can freely exercise their religious beliefs and according to social scientists, as the study material states some puritans left England because social changes occurred. Besides the social changes there was tension between the poor and the wealthy…

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    In chapter seventeen we are learning about Europe during the Enlightenment or known as the “Age of Reason”. The cause for this Enlightenment was the Thirty Years’ War. Politics, philosophy, science, and communication were all basically reconstructed. People throughout Europe questioned authority and knew that there needed to be a change. Many things were produced during the Enlightenment period such as; books, essays, inventions, discoveries, laws, wars, and revolutions. Many significant things…

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    Cathedral churches were founded in Europe in the 11th century and lasted until the 16th century. The cathedrals were built quickly and added to as the funds became available. Most of the the senior clergies funded the construction of the cathedrals and the bishops could fund at own discretion. Construction consisted of brick and mortar instead of the more expensive limestone. Although when construction first started everything was made of wood, but later stopped due to the many fires. The…

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