the Kings of Medieval Europe. This really shows how important religion was to the people‚ and the Church was the only path to religion. The head of the Church was known as the Pope. The Pope was regarded as being Gods representative. This gave him a huge amount of power and importance. Anyone who turned against the Pope would be banned from the Church and go straight to hell when they died. As this was a time when everyone believed in Heaven and Hell‚ and everyone attended the Church this was considered
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After the death of Louis the Fat‚ he was immediately replaced by his second son‚ Louis VII‚ or Louis the Young. Abbot Suger was an adviser to him but he was also one of the regents during the second crusade. Even though Louis VII was not very keen on the idea of the crusade‚ during the time he died‚ he eventually started his own crusade. Suger’s work is not as detailed as his work for the life of Louis VI (Bradbury 130). He is one of the few kings‚ along with Philip I and Louis XI‚ who were not buried
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for a short time before the foothold was lost to the Muslims •The Byzantines faced the threat of invasion from the north (the Germanic tribes) and from the south (the Slavs and the Turkic people) •Over time in the empire‚ the relations between the Pope and the princes worsened •The great schism between the Latin Church and the Orthodox Church took place in 1054‚ a split that still exists today. B.Society and Urban Life •The economic wealth and late Roman Imperial system in the east initially
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escapades in the south against the Muslim forces of Suleiman the Magnificent (1520-1566). In the North in the town of Marburg‚ Germany‚ the Swiss and German Protestants planned a meeting to form alliances and unite against the Catholic regime under the Pope and Charles V. For four days (October 1-4) the Protestant leaders of the day met at Marburg Castle by order of Landgrave Philip of Hesse (1504-1567) and conversed with each other with the ultimate goal of deciding common rules of the Protestant religion
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is neither the Cathedral of the Pope nor the mother church of Roman Catholicism‚ it is still regarded as one of the holiest Catholic locations. St. Peter’s Basilica is named so because it is the burial site of Saint Peter‚ one of the twelve apostles. There has been a church on this site since the fourth century and many new Popes were interred there‚ as Saint Peter’s tomb is located directly beneath the structure. At the beginning of the sixteenth century‚ Pope Julius II commissioned Bramante
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belief in the supremacy of the Pope‚ the separate means of salvation‚ and the use of statues and pictures represented by the two simply by paying close attention to the detail in structures. By this time in history‚ there was a line of corrupt Pope’s littering amongst the Catholic faith‚ yet many people still continued to stay Catholic. Most likely‚ this is due to the specific Catholic belief of the power the Pope held. Papal Infallibility‚ or the belief that the Pope was and is unable to do wrong
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Key Ingredients that Engendered the Protestant Reformation Since the foundations of the Christian faith‚ the Catholic denomination has consistently been the most powerful and largest church community. The Pope held supreme religious power over the world and eventually held position as an important governmental figure. Throughout the times of the Middle Ages and Renaissance the Roman Catholic Church was the central basis and concern for all people. They forced people to obey their laws and pay sums
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1420‚ when Pope Martin V (papacy 1417-31) brought the papacy back the Rome for good‚ it became something of a papal duty to restore the city to its former greatness. Because as many as 100‚000 visitors might swarm into Rome during religious holidays‚ it was important that they be “moved by its extraordinary sights‚” as one pope put it‚ and thus find their “belief continually confirmed and daily corroborated by great buildings … seemingly made by the hand of God.” In other words‚ the popes were charged
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(Mary I)‚ Henry wanted a son to succeed him on the thrown and Catherine was unable to give him anymore children. Henry also wanted to marry his lover‚ Anne Boleyn but her nephew‚ Holy Roman Emperor Charles V was strongly opposed and he was holding Pope Clement VIII prisoner so he could not approve the divorce without displeasing his captor. Another obvious reason was to do with religion. Henry may have been sympathetic to ideas of protestant‚ Martin Luther and therefore rejected Catholicism. It
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flocks‚ crops‚ and even people to the church. This is why the church controlled most of the land through the MA and renaissance. With the land of power and money the church could control kings and countries. The pope had great influence over kings and people. Anyone who was against the pope‚ had the power to excommunicate. Which meant that the person could not attend church services or sacraments‚ and once they die they were shunned to hell. This was especially important because everyone believed in
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