Besides ruling with considerable power‚ he was also an author and a composer. His desire to provide England with a male heir lead to two things‚ one being his sox marriages and two hos break with the pope. As King Henry the 8th aged he became severely obese and his health suffered‚ contributing to his death in 1547. Later in his life on the throne he was thought to be egoistical‚ harsh‚ and an insecure king. King Henry the 8th will go down as one of
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Constitution of the Clergy wants Church officials to be elected instead of appointed. Elections are not subject to papal confirmation which means that the new bishop may not apply to the pope for any form of confirmation. The new constitution states that the clergy must swear an oath to France first and God and the pope second. They want us to become loyal servants of the state instead of servants of God and the church. This is the direction that France is going in if the Civil Constitution of the
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part of the Byzantine Empire. (NEW PARAGRAPH) When the Turks threatened the capital city of Constantinople‚ the Byzantine emperor appealed to the pope in Rome. Because Christian pilgrims going to Palestine came home with reports of persecution from the Turks‚ the Byzantine emperor’s appeal for help found a reception in Europe. (NEW PARAGRAPH) Pope Urban I wanted to regain the Holy Land from the Muslims. He called a great meeting of church leaders and French nobles at Clermont France in 1095. At
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The short yet significant reign of Edward bought with it a series of severe changes to England and all those within it‚ many of them taking a religious nature. As the once unquestionable authority of the church became challenged by both critics and affiliates alike‚ England witnessed an almost inevitable reformation. However‚ the impact on the majority was not necessarily beneficial- as Duffy wrote‚ the Reformation bought with it an ‘assault on traditional religion’‚ leaving many men that ‘breathed
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the Lutheran religion. In England‚ another reformation took place. Henry XIII ’s marriage to Catherine of Aragon was not producing a son‚ so Henry wanted a divorce. When the pope refused to grant the divorce‚ Henry severed all ties with him‚ and made himself the Supreme Head of the Anglican Church‚ or simply put‚ the pope of England. Meanwhile‚ in France yet another reformation was started by a man named John Calvin who had fled to Geneva because the French Monarchy suppressed Protestants. In Geneva
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How Can I be Saved? The question that many based their lives around and tried to find a constant answer to. Although there is no clear concise answer‚ Martin Luther‚ a German priest‚ believed the answer lay in the Bible and in the hands of God (Eriks). He thought predestination was the correct way of thinking. This is contradictory towards what Desiderius Erasmus‚ a Renaissance scholar‚ thought. He thought that free will was the answer‚ and that how a person acted and lived their life would decide
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going to the church such as in the office of the Pope and His reign. The Germans aristocrats also backed up much on the Lutheran
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9/10 – 9/14 P.1 Neuman AP Euro Ch.9/10 Review Questions Kagan Western Heritage 8th edition Chapter 9 (1300-1527) 1. What were the underlying and precipitating causes of the Hundred Years’ War? What advantages did each side have? Why were the French able to drive the English almost entirely out of France? The first underlying and precipitating cause of the Hundred Years’ War was that England and France were too closely proximate emergent territorial powers. Another cause of the Hundred Years’
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that split up Europe. The protest against the church was not entirely new. In England there had been similar protests in the 14th century: although these had been crushed. Luther gained a lot of support for his ideas. Many people were unhappy with the Pope and the Church. The Reformation began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church. The Protestant Reformation started in the northern and central parts of Europe. This area was affected because it is further away from the Catholic religious capital
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bodies would hang from a single scaffold-by men frantic to eat the warm flesh raw"(54). Manchester describes how dire starvation really was for peasants. Rulers were too busy overpowering each other that the cries of suffering cannot be heard. While popes‚ monks‚ and priests collected indulgences to satisfy their pockets‚men eat each other’s flesh. Violence rose‚ especially when the culprits were easily forgiven by surrendering money. Manchester writes‚"’As an incentive donors would receive‚ not only
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