Popes

arrest warrants. The Knights were ultimately captured and tortured which culminated in a pile of false confessions, most of which were unfounded and simply untrue. King Philip took advantage of such false confessions and convinced the newly elected pope, who was elected under engineered election falsification, to dismantle and capture those that were true to their faith and land. A torturous and deadly ending to a group that cared only to become extinct due to a greedy and vengeful king with no

Question 1 What makes people say that Jimmy Carter was a poor president while Abraham Lincoln is still celebrated as a leader of vision and great respect in America? The answer lies in understanding the need to rate leaders. Some leaders such as Alexander the Great are reputed for having shown great leadership qualities while some are neither celebrated nor reputed for having done anything worthwhile. The idea of all this background information is to show that the idea of rating leaders is not an

When the medieval time period comes up, people may view it as a time of suffering. With the Hundred Years’ War, the crusades, the multiple plagues, and the corruption of the church, it is no secret that it was a dreadful time. The slow developments of cities, the empires of Europe, and the corrupted church were all considerably influential on this world. With all of these things going on, people thought it was the end of the world. The first way to describe the medieval world was with the development

Reformation In the 15th century Europe was controlled by the religious faction of the papacy. Anything done against the papacy, more importantly the Pope, ended with the person, or country, being excommunicated. Excommunication was an act of condemning or forsaking an individual to hell. Only the Pope could forgive and allow them to be redeemed. Selling of indulgences was also another common practice that the papacy used during the time. They required all Catholics pay tribute to the papacy and in

Before the Congress of Vienna the French occupation had far reaching affects on Italy. The power of the Church and the Pope was reduced, changes were made in landownership and land was redistributed. A new middle class began to appear. Agriculture was improved and the peasants were freed from their old feudal ties and obligations. Then when Napoleon was defeated and the restoration of the old regime and monarchs was started, Italy again became a country divided into eleven independent states, excluding

people and events in time. For example, the Great Schism is the first major division within Christianity. The Great Schism, otherwise known as the East-West Schism, is when the early Christian Church split into the Western Roman Catholic Church (led by Pope Leo IX) and Eastern Orthodox Church (led by the patriarch of Constantinople, Michael Cerularius). This occurred in 1054 but previously there had been a lot of tension between the two sides. The Great Schism occurred because of

In source A it is shown that conformity to Catholicism is being forced, even though priests are willing to conform the overall consensus shows that Catholicism still needs to be widely accepted again by the people. Given that a priest in Yorkshire was recording this gives us an inclination into the regional view of religion at this time, its depict Yorkshire as less Protestant and so it would lead people to be more willing to conform due to the region being a strong Catholic area. Similarly source

Damasus I, who belonged to the church in Rome and performed the role of the apostolic see, referring to himself as the pontefix Maximus. Nowadays, the title of the pope originates from this combination of words – pontiff. This was the impetus for Christians to elevate the authority of the church. The congress held in Rom gave the pope the title of the “Vicar of Christ.”

In Western Christendom, the Catholic Church was the sole provider of spiritual services. That led the Catholic Church to pursue policies that were monopolistic in nature and the indulgence system was an integral part of that monopoly. During the time of the Reformation, Martin Luther in his 95 Thesis contend that the indulgence system was immoral under his interpretation of scripture. At the time of the Reformation, the Catholic Church was the de facto government of Western Europe and the indulgence

Differences of the Church of England and Lutheranism The Church of England was church started by King Henry the VII during the 1500’s. Henry created this church because the Pope wouldn't let him divorce, so after he built the church, he got divorced. This lead to King Henry the VII having six wives the first, wife he divorced was Catherine of Aragon. His goal was to have one son so he could run the throne. Sadly his third wife, Jane had a son, but because of that Jane died. His son died at the