One of the major events that assisted the fall of the Holy Roman Empire was Thirty Years’ War. The event that started the Thirty Years’ War was “defenestration of Prague.” Two of Ferdinand’s officials were thrown out a window. The Lutherans violated the Peace of Augsburg by acquiring German Bishops, Calvinists converting princes, and Jesuits reconverting princes to Catholicism. The Calvinists and Catholics had many advantages because of that which made the Lutherans fear the Peace of Augsburg would be negatively impaired. The Lutheran Princes felt it necessary to create the Protestant Union and in retaliation the Catholics formed to Catholic League.
Building on his premise that, according to Knox's understanding of the Bible, "God, by the order of his creation, has [deprived] woman of authority and dominion" and from history that "man has seen, proved, and pronounced just causes why it should be". His diatribe against female rulers backfired on him when Elizabeth I succeeded her half-sister Mary I as Queen of England; Elizabeth was a supporter of the Protestant cause, but took offence at Knox's words about female sovereigns. Her opposition to him personally became an obstacle to Knox's direct involvement with the Protestant cause in England after 1559. John Knox (1514 – 1572) was a Scottish clergyman and writer who was a leader of the Protestant Reformation and is considered the founder of the Presbyterian denomination in Scotland. He is believed to have been educated at the University of St Andrews and worked as a notary-priest.
This is essentially because the Roman Catholic Church was split into two. Therefore the people were divided down the middle on who to side with. The Church essentially tied itself into a knot. The Great Schism led to the downfall of the Roman Catholic Church because it decentralized the Church’s base of power, caused people to question the Church’s authority, it created a vacuum of power, drained the Church’s funds, and let heretical movements get a stronghold. The Great Schism started when Pope Clement VII V moved his presidency to Avignon.
They had used several immoral practices such as simony, the buying and selling of church offices. And as author Dan Petty put it, “pluralism (holding multiple offices simultaneously) and absenteeism (failure to reside in the parish where they were supposed to minister),”(Petty). Several situations in which the church displayed its power included taxations and practicing celibacy (Petty). Due to the church’s immense power, many expressed fear and became discouraged to contest its actions. One of the main leaders in the act to resist the Roman Catholic Church’s authority and change the ideas of Christianity in the Protestant Reformation was Martin Luther.
Bismarck began to fight back, he banned the most active order of Catholic priests and introduced a law that the government had a right to inspect all schools, including Catholic ones. The government would also control the training of priests and appoint them to churches and no one could be married without a civil ceremony in a government office. The Catholics saw this all as an attack on their beliefs, the country was left in struggle resulting in the ‘Kulterkampf’ movement. The loyalty of the Catholics had been weakened and the Prussian conservatives did not want the government to control local problems. This made Bismarck largely unpopular and cause disunity in Germany.
The Pope ordered Bernard of Clairvaux (in France) to preach a second crusade to take it back and defeat Zangi. From beginning to end, though, this crusade was not successful. Most of Conrad's soldiers were killed as they marched through Turkey. Third Crusade 1187–1192:The Third Crusade was caused by the capture of Jerusalem in 1187 by Saladin, the sultan of Egypt. Saladin was the enemy of the English crusades.
Sara Pourghaed John T. Paoletti and Gary M. Radke, “Florence: The Renewed Republic andthe Return of the Medici” The essay starts off my pointing out how Medici lost power of Florence after 2 years of power. His own people threw him out after he allied with Naples and the French king, Charles VIII. After him came who Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola was one of the strongest political voices at the time. He was among the clergy of the monastery of San Marco, but he could not hold office. His preaching of Christian reform were so powerful that it gave a religious cast on republican reform turning the meeting hall of the Great Council into the Hall of Christ.
learning to read and write in Latin and his native German. This was before the widespread availability of books, therefore peasants could not actually read the Bible, so the clergy were their only source of Scripture. Luther saw firsthand the corruption of the Church, and came to believe it was his restlessly duty to protest. Luther was prosecuted for his stance, however he famously used Scripture to defend himself, and this started the revolution now known as the Reformation. As the ideas spread, peasants began to see for themselves just how corrupt the Church was, and how they were being oppressed from their own religion.
Transitioning from poverty to a rigorous private school was challenging. In spite of this Swift received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1686 at the age of 14 and later he would go on to receive his Master of Arts degree. During 1689 Swift was diagnosed with Meniere’s disease a disturbance of the inner ear that produces nausea and vertigo, a disease that was not understood in Swift’s day (Cody). In 1695, he was ordained as a priest and in 1713 becomes Dean of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin (Crook). This is where he saw the poverty and oppression of the Irish (Bromberg).
The genitalia in the fresco were covered twenty-four years later. That’s when the Council of Trent prohibited nudity in religious art. The fresco was restored in 1993 under the supervision of curator of the Vatican Museums Frabrizio Mancinelli. During the restoration process the censorship of Carafa’s campaign was removed. Michelangelo’s exposure of the nude bodies in the fresco caused a lot of conflicts.