Trent Affair

The professional and personal politician’s behaviors, political occurrences beyond the bounds of hometown, frantic trade at stock exchanges, medical advancements, collective corruption, and institutions behaving bad, international affairs are not commonly shown from the original source or direct from the firsthand. Substantially, public perceptions of these events are skewed generally from news and fictional stories by the media. Like cartoons, media articles in many instances fabricate…

What forces were most important in determining the spread of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation? The reformation refers to the 16th-century movement for the reform of the Roman Catholic Church based on Martin Luther’s criticisms. The Catholic Church responded with the counter-reformation. This addressed some key criticism but retained central beliefs such as the intervening role of the clergy and saints in one’s relationship with God. In general, historians agree that the failures of…

celibacy comes into play. Christian followers freely give themselves to God for the sake and well-being of the kingdom of heaven. During the practice of celibacy Christians are able to better serve God and mankind by not being distracted by the worldly affairs such as marriage and sexual intercourse. The New Testament shares multiple verses related to…

The Enlightenment period is a perfect example of the Church staying true to its teachings and reminding the world of the limits of science in satisfying man’s yearning for truth. As per usual, people were falling astray from the truth and started to doubt the Church. The views of philosophers, such as Rene Descartes, became popular amongst the people. Rene Descartes was dissatisfied that philosophers before him had been unable to agree on what is true. His solution was to start over and doubt…

were revolutionizing decisions made by the Europeans. These explorations had led to the discovery of new lands, the chance to spread Christianity and to improve in wealth. However these were the consequences of external affairs of Europe. What were the consequences of internal affairs in Europe? How was Europe progressing in religion, politics, and economics that they had to spread their influence worldwide and ultimately shaped not just Europe but the whole world? I will be arguing that Europe…

Back in early European history, there were often many disagreements between people, especially when it came to religion. These disagreements can lead to a wide variety of things, whether it be war, compromise, or just flat out tension. In one of the bigger disputes of religion in European history, Martin Luther and John Calvin vs. the Catholic Church, there was no clear winner or loser towards the beginning, once the two men proposed their ideas of why the Catholic Church wasn’t to be followed…

Christ. In 1520, Erasmus met with Luther’s prince and he asked Erasmus’ advice on Luther. Erasmus wrote statement such as “the attack on Luther was caused by hatred of letters” and the “desire for supremacy, (Wolf, 156). He also wrote that “this affair” should be settled by a mature deliberation of serious and imperial men, (Wolf,…

In the 16th Century, religion divided Europe. However, a hand full of rulers influenced their countries and led them towards success. These rulers were known as politiques. Politiques were rulers or people in places of position that put the success and well being of their states above religious unity. They did not just change how Europe was politically but changed it culturally as well. The rulers accomplished religious stability in their countries, balanced their governments, gained…

including that Jews in Trent killed a Christian child and used his blood in their rituals. This claim led to the fall of Trent's Jewish community in 1475 and started violence in other Italian cities. Renaissance law was not applicable to all citizens because of government. Jews never really had their own government. Even where large groups of Jews lived together, they never really controlled their own government. Kings, nobles, popes, and town councils interfered constantly in the affairs of the…

seems to engage in concept stretching and redefining the DPT. He is expanding the DPT theory’s assumption of democracies not going to war with each other to military preparations and threatening. Democratic states can use threatening in domestic affairs, thus its manifestation in international dealings of the state can be considered as externalization of domestic…