Reformation in Switzerland

Joseph Cavuoti Essay for The Prologue English IV - 2 February 22, 2018 1. How does Chaucer use characterization in The Prologue of The Canterbury Tales to demonstrate the changing social structure in late Medieval England? Geoffrey Chaucer uses brilliant characterization in The Prologue of The Canterbury Tales to demonstrate the changing social structure in late Medieval England. Many of the characters of The Prologue are described by their clothing, language, actions, religion, and overall…

The Medieval society viewed and treated everyone according to their social rank, meaning nobility and ecclesiastical dominated all at the top, and peasants worked for them at the bottom. The Catholic Church's increase in power and wealth in the 14th century resulted in the establishment of expensive churches decorated with excessive amounts of gold. These great displays of wealth angered the people experiencing disease, plague, and famine, especially when churchmen began taking advantage of…

In The Prologue of The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer illustrates the medieval society. The Prologue is an introduction to the thirty-one characters, who go on a pilgrimage to Canterbury. The people in pilgrimage want to visit the relics of Saint Thomas Becket in Canterbury Cathedral. Two of these characters are the Knight and the Squire. The Knight is the father of the Squire, and they both are warriors and gentleman, who ride their horses gallantly. Even though they have these similarities…

Power and privilege: How and why is a social group represented in a particular way? Oscar Wilde’s Salome, published in French in 1893 and translated to English the following year, is a biblical one-act play that revolves around the central themes of gender roles, institutionalized misogyny, as well as the ‘the gaze’ and its effect. Being a somewhat controversial play, it was denied the right to be staged in Britain until 1931 (Price & Tydeman, 1) as it was illegal to depict biblical figures in…

The Renaissance is a phenomenon which is considered to be the beginning of the modern age. The literal meaning of the word is “Re-birth”, which is exactly what it was. It was a period of spiritual and cultural awakening for the whole of Middle East. It stretched over three centuries, from the 14th to the 17th. It is thought to have originated in Florence, Italy at the end of the 13th century but quickly spread to the whole of Europe. What started out as a cultural movement soon transformed into…

The Reformations that produced the Lutheran, Calvinist, Catholics, English and Anabaptists faiths was not only brought upon a change in doctrine, but also a change in the role of secular authority. Originally, it was the Roman Catholic Church, specifically the Pope, which controlled the lives of the people. However, Luther’s reform set the path for change. As people separated from the church, they developed the roles they believed the secular authorities should have in religious matters. In the…

Res Publica Christiana: The Latin phrase for the Christianity during the middle ages, combining the ideas of public affairs and Christianity, the meaning of Christendom. Through the word Res Publica Christiana we get an excellent insight of the Christian world during the middle ages. After the Roman Empire collapse the only things left was the catholic church which took much control over the different counties and towns throughout the year. Two of the major figures who took over religions and…

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s writing is consistently noted and acclaimed, especially for his recurring themes that assume a prevalent role in the downfall of his ancestral religion, Puritanism. Puritans were a religious group during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries who, after oppression from the King of England, sought to reform the Church of England from its Catholic traditions. Nathaniel Hawthorne was born to a Puritan family in 1804, in Salem, Massachusetts. From his experiences, Hawthorne…

Populorum Progressio is an encyclical written by Pope Paul VI in 1967. The title of this encyclical means “One the Development of People”. In this encyclical, Pope Paul VI highlights urgent problems that must be dealt within weaker, undeveloped nations. The injustices that Pope Paul VI addresses include widespread hunger, poverty, disease and ignorance. Populorum Progressio is split into two sections; humankind's complete development and humankind’s common development. The development progress…

In the early 17th century names like Francois Viete and Bartholomeo Pitiscus were still ringing through the mathematical community’s ears. Viete had blown everyone away with his book Canon Mathematicus in 1579. The book contained a collection of trigonometric formulas and tables. Viete was also responsible for trisecting an angle and the construction of the regular pentagon. Bartholomeo Pitiscus had coined the term trigonometry in the title of his 1595 book, Trigonometria. This book was split…