It was from these experiences that Machiavelli formed his beliefs about the organisation of an effective leadership. However, The Medici family returned to power and ended the Florentine Republic, in September 1512. Machiavelli was fired from his post and later he was suspected of plotting against the new Medicean government. This led him to imprisonment were he was tortured and received a huge fine. After his imprisonment Machiavelli found himself to be unemployed, he tried desperately to re-enter the political scene.
When Europe finally emerged out of the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance, Europeans despised everything about the Middle Ages. In the Middle Ages, queens and kings were decided by “divine power” which opposes the notion of rulership in Machiavelli’s The Prince. Erasmus, another key player in the Renaissance, once stated, “Men are made, not born” which totally contradicts the idea of divine power. Another new idea Machiavelli developed in The Prince that goes against Middle age thought was to use soldiers that one possesses in their state, instead of using mercenaries or auxiliary soldiers. In the Renaissance, the humility of the Middle Ages was completely thrown out, only to be replaced with people wearing extravagant clothing and consuming themselves in their image.
The cause of the English civil war The title ‘The cause of the English civil war’ means, what happened to make the civil war start. A civil war is when a country fights against itself with different beliefs. In 1625 King James died and Charles I came to the throne. James had strongly believed in the divine right of kings he had thought that monarchs got their power and the right to rule from God and that because of this they must be obeyed, the people of England were not very happy with this because it meant that the king could do whatever he wanted and claim that God had told him to. England for a long time had been told to hate Catholics and when James came from Scotland and became king he decided to marry Henrietta Maria, a Catholic, the people became unhappy because they did not know if their heir would be Protestant or Catholic.
In 1759 George was in love with Lady Sarah Lennox and was planning to marry her. Then his minister Lord Bute advised him against the decision and he forgot the thought of marrying her. He said the following about the decision “I am born for the happiness or misery of a great nation and consequently must often act contrary to my passions” (Ayling, 54). Then the next year when his grandfather died
The Moors influence was getting weakened and Boabdil actions made everything worse He was the son of the sultan Abu l-Hasan Ali, and as it sometimes happens with princes, Boabdil was restless to gain power. So, after a series of incidents between Christians and Muslims that shook Granada's stability, Boabdil named himself ruler of Granada. Of course, his words didn't take too long to catch fire. A civil war ensued in the emirate, weakening it and easing the way for the Christian troops. The Granada seemed to be an easy target for Ferdinand and Isabella to conquer so in return they’ll gain power and glory.
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.
More than these, I think Lear is motivated by his idea that he is a good man. One thing that supports is when Kent says “I’ll tell thee thou dost evil,” (Act I, Scene I, Line 175) and Shakespeare writes the king as reacting in a frenzy, going so far as to say “This moment is thy death,” (Act I, Scene I, Line 190). By portraying the king in this way, Shakespeare causes us to judge him as unstable and mental. While his actions thus far have been rash, him reacting in this way, and him banishing his daughter saying, “Here I disclaim all my paternal care, Propinquity and property of blood,” (Act I, Scene I, Lines 117-118). From these thing, it is made clear that Lear is not only rash and insecure but also thoughtless and stupid.
Primarily, the theses were challenges to the selling of indulgences (more on indulgences below). Initially they met with unimpressive response. But when the impact of Luther’s ideas reached Rome’s ear, a landslide of activity ensued: two roman inquisitions against Luther (1518 and 1520), Luther is excommunicated after refusing to recant his teachings at the Diet of Worms (1521), increased threat of being killed as a heretic results in Fredrick the Wise hiding Luther at Wartburg Castle (1521-1522). Luther continued author papers on his thoughts and theology until his death in 1546. His courage to stand firm for faith, freedom, and education of every soul by the word of God changed the face of Christendom forever.
The main reasons I will be looking at for why the revolutions failed are The Pope’s Allocution, they didn’t have a common goal, France, lack of foreign support and also the power of Austria. With the appointment of the new Pope, Pope Pius X1 in 1846, the states of Italy believed they would have a better chance of unification. Pope Pius was the first liberal pope Italy had seen and he gained support by ending censorship, telling Austrians to leave a town in the Papal States and he also released 2000 political prisoners. These actions had Metternich scared. He even quoted ‘we were prepared for anything, except a liberal Pope.
The Iliad is the first great book, and the first great book about the suffering and loss of war. Homer, for reasons of his own, suppressed the truth about the Trojan war- in reality, the Greeks lost. Homer once said, “Men learn with difficulty… But they are deceived only too readily”. In The Iliad, two characters have the narrative urge, and something approaching a synoptic view of the scenes surging around them. Achilles sings stories of heroes' deeds in battle, and Helen embroiders scenes of fighting on an elaborate textile.