Protestant Ascendancy

behind Jesus’s head that way the viewer’s attention is drawn to Jesus. The painting might look like it is proportioned correctly, but in fact it is not. Jesus , who is seated, is the same size as the apostle standing on the left side of the painting. By making Jesus bigger than all the other apostles Leonardo is showing Jesus’s importance, something older artist did called hieratic perspective. Leonardo was always experimenting and his “Last Supper” is a result of his experimentation. Leonardo…

Majority of the society felt that this was the first time that they could speak out, this incident of rebellion occurring over the majority of Europe created change and influenced more of a development in the Renaissance. During this time after the black death had occurred, the great invention of the printing press created a cultural development in the influence of the Renaissance. The printing press was invented in the the 14th century and was introduced to Europe in the late 14th century and…

Tension between the different Christian denominations was deeply present during the Protestant Reformation. The tension between different Christian denominations caused violence within city states. Anabaptists, a more radical Protestant religion, made both Catholics and Lutherans upset with the idea of adult baptism. Lutherans and Catholics both hunted the Anabaptist because of this. Adult baptism was made illegal and people were executed for committing adult baptism. The Anabaptists eventually…

Faust is a five-act grand opera by Charles Gounod. It is based on a poem written by Johann Von Goethe who wanted to use his work as the philosophy of human life. Faust originally was a Polish legend about a doctor selling his soul to the devil to experience the pleasures of life. Taking the idea of legend, Goethe transformed it to a poem, which he used to make connections about philosophy and religion. Around this time many literary, musical, and pantomimes were released depicting the legend…

had control over schools, universities, and publications” (Newth 9). Which resulted in the Church banning Thomas More's, Galileo's, and Joan of Arc's written work. In 1543 the church had stated that no book may be printed, censored, or traded without their permission, and in 1563, the King had abolished that law (Newth 10). Stating that only he, Charles IX of France could decide which books would be published. The church itself had created a list of books in 1559 that were banned; the list had…

letting Germany to determine if it was Catholic or Protestant. The reform also affects other parts of Europe like England. After the death of King Edward VII, many prevented his sister Mary I to succeed him and so they crowned his cousin Lady Jane Grey. Mary however did not give up. She and her supporters gained control of the crown and executed Jane. Mary I killed many protestants in order to re-establish the Catholicism. When killing all the protestants, Mary was given the nickname “ Bloody…

Diet of Worms This restaurant sells traditional holly meals that would be served in the Roman Catholic Church to the pope and other important people. This restaurant was important to the Roman Catholic Church because it marked the end of the protestant reformation and lead people in society to start and question the teaching of the church instead of fearing them. 95 Fakes Event: 95…

Johann Gutenberg was a German blacksmith, goldsmith, printer and publisher. He was the one who invented the printing press. He was born in the German city of Mainz. He was born in around 1398. He’s the youngest son of the upper-class merchant Friele Gensfleisch. His father was a goldsmith for the Bishop at Mainz, but most likely, he was involved in the cloth trade. Johann introduced the printing to Europe. His introduction of movable type printing to Europe started the “printing revolution” ,…

Utopian texts are created to instigate introspective thought into the society in which the audience lives in. Thomas More wrote Utopia to satirize and to criticise the status quo of his era in 1555. . Written in a time of political, cultural and religious upheaval, it was a revolutionary text that challenged the accepted state of affairs. Through his work, entitled ‘Utopia’ More criticised political corruption, religious hypocrisy, distribution of wealth and the harsh penal code of the time. He…

doctrine specific to the Presbyterian denomination as Protestants in general I am limited in my response options. It has been many years since I have seriously looked at the similarities and differences so forgive me if my memory is skewed in any way. One of the most notable differences I would add to the examples that you stated would be the Catholic’s use of the Apocrypha to determine their Canon and body of Ecclesiastical Law. In the Protestant…