Italian popes Essays

“POPE MELCHIADES/ MILTIADES” (311-314). “Miltiades, Saint, POPE. The year of his birth is not known; he was elected pope in either 310 or 311; died 10 or January 11, 314. ” Miltiades (the name is also written Melchiades), a “native of Africa”, was elevated to the papacy.” (The Original Catholic Encyclopedia). Miltiades was a native of Africa who was officially elected Pope of the Roman Catholic Church in 311 AD and he served on the papacy as the thirty second pope in the Roman Church for three

Empire, the Italian city-states, England, and unified nation states of France and Spain. The strength of the rulers in these areas began increasing in the previous years and many were anxious to take the opportunity offered by the Reformation to weaken the control of the papacy and increase their own power, while also seeing a reform of the church. One response of the Roman Catholic Church was holding the long-delayed Council of Trent in 1545, lasting 18 years and spanning four different popes. Corruptions

All about renaissance fairs states that after the collapse of the Roman Empire, the only force remaining was the Roman Catholic Church, rulers started to consolidate power and concentrate on self-perseveration. For rulers, it was easier because industries increased and wealth kept on growing. People started to move from the country to the city, therefore more people were taxed and more money the empire gained. The two greatest powers of the medieval era were the Roman Empire and the Roman Catholic

Pope Martin V was born in 1368 in Genazzano, Italy. His original name was Oddo or Oddone Colona. He was a cardinal subdeacon who helped organize the Council of Pisa in 1409. He was unanimously elected pope in a conclave held during the Council of Constance. He faced enormous difficulties during his papacy, because he had to restore the western church and the Papal States. Pope Martin V died on February 20, 1431. Pope Martin V had many different achievements and events that he was a part of.

condemned Pope Niccolo III (Giovanni Gaetano Orsini - member of the prominent Orsini family from Rome) to spend eternity in the Third Bolgia of the Eighth Circle, headfirst in a hole, whose punishment was due to those who committed simony, such as greed for power and other ecclesiastical crimes. In a first time Pope Niccolo' III had been appointed head of the Inquisition as Giovanni Gaetano Orsini (1282), and only after his election as Pope (1277), he took name Nicholas III. This Pope is remembered

The Italian city-states in which the Renaissance would begin were created due to warring between the Pope and the Holy Roman Emperor, due to weakening of church dominance over temporal affairs. Since feudal society never developed, some merchants and artisans were able to grow wealthy, and a middle class

contributed to the Reformation. People began to assert themselves against blind faith and useless religious rituals and began to feel that they could reach God without the intermediary of a priest. Instead of one Pope, two Popes began to be elected one by the French Cardinals and the other by the Italian Cardinals. Solution: With recognition of the reformers criticism and acceptance of their ideology Protestants were able to put their beliefs on display in art. Artists sympathetic to the movement developed

success, Christianity in the western world incited the expansion of European music. 500 - 1400 AD (CE) - Medieval Period  Guitars with 3, 4 and 5 strings were already in use i.e The Guitarra Latina, and The Guitarra Morisca was the first guitars.  Pope Gregory innovates a new and one of the original vocal styles; the chant, which is used in Roman Catholic’s named the “Gregorian chant” in his honor.  While being used officially in all church services. Through the influence of the Church, the new

• Catholic crusaders sacrificed their lives to Christianity • Catholics were hugely influenced and dominated by the Church, this caused them to practice Christianity more often, it was not usual for Catholics to pray 5 times a day • Many people 's daily jobs were run by Church officials • Catholics payed 10% of their wage to the Catholic Church, decreasing their prosperity • Serfs and pilgrims were given freedom by going on the Crusades • By the fourteenth century the Crusades had become an essential

In the 12th penny. a rediscovery of Greek and Roman writing happened crosswise over Europe that in the end prompted the improvement of the humanist development in the 14th penny. Notwithstanding underlining Greek and Latin grant, humanists accepted that every individual had criticalness inside of society. The development of an enthusiasm for humanism prompted the adjustments in expressions of the human experience and sciences that shape normal originations of the Renaissance. The 14th penny. through

stigmatic saint is being given higher security measures than a head of state. A no-fly zone was declared above the Italian city of Foggia and the nearby town of San Giovanni Rotondo where the Saint 's bodily remains have been on display since 2008, La Repubblica reported. Pio 's body to Rome will also be given a police escort to Rome and the 500 km route will be lined with police officers, at Pope Francis ' request. The remains will stay in Rome until February 11th and will be guarded by between 800 –

started to think about things which they did not like in the Catholic Church and slips away from the church which caused a split between the Catholic Church and newly formed Protestant churches that Were led by men such as Martin Luther and John Calvin. Pope Paul Ill called the Council of Trent as an attempt to bring all people back to the Catholic church, to prevent further formation of Protestantism and to change parts of the church that affected what people thought about the church. The council of Trent

Charlemagne, the real power figure in the Roman Empire, then released the pope. In 800, Charlemagne is crowned by Pope Leo III as the Holy Roman Emperor. One may ask: “Isn’t the pope losing power by crowning Charlemagne?” The answer to that question is no. Pope Leo III never really was powerful in the Roman Empire compared to previous popes. The pope and Charlemagne had a reciprocal relationship. By crowning Charlemagne, the pope is getting the Romans protection and Charlemagne is getting legitimacy

reputation to decline majorly. Some of the reasons that caused their reputation to decline so badly would include Pope Celestine V being elected and then months later he resigns, which has never really happened before and leads to the question can a pope resign? Another event that happen was the election of Pope Boniface VIII which caused a conflict with the king of France because Pope Boniface refused to let King Philip IV tax the Clergy causing conflict between theories of papal Monarchy and secular

time, scandalous and committed a large number of heinous and immoral acts throughout the course of its reign of power; most of which involved the Pope and how he ruled as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church. After reading this, you will be able to witness the vile atrocities executed by the Roman Catholic Church under the corrupt leadership of the Pope; in fact, Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc, an Anglo-French writer and historian, once described the Roman Catholic Church as "an institute run

is the period of transitioning from medieval to modern times. During the Protestant Reformation, technology made a huge impact. Warfare such as cannons and gunpowder, printing technology such as the printing press enhanced Europe. The influence of Italian Renaissance artist spread throughout Northern Europe. Northern Renaissance consisted of literature figure Shakespeare and visual figures from Flemish and German. They shared their concerns for human natural through protest and a plea of church reform

Raphael’s letter to Pope Leo X on Architectural drawing Raphael an Italian painter and Architect of the Renaissance period wrote a letter to Pope Leo X expressing his anger at the state of the ‘great, noble city, once queen of the world’, Rome, as being ‘cruelly butchered’. In the letter Raphael makes clear his dissatisfaction to a number of things that relate to the state the Ancient structures which lay in. He pleads with Pope Leo X to take the issue of protecting these ruins as they were the

and Roman aristocratic families, especially during the Pornocracy, Crescentii and Tusculan Papacy, controlled the papacy and the appointing of popes, exploited papal administration and doctrine, and repeatedly were called on to protect the security of the papacy. For example, Byzantine Emperor Justinian installed Pope Vigilius in 537 after deposing Pope Silervius and later deposed Vigilius after he refused to cooperate with him. As well, the papacy was required to wait for royal permission consistently

Who was John Wyclif: John Wyclif was a church reformer, biblical translator, and a scholar, who was kind of an anti-pope writer. He was very suspicious in the eyes of the church clergy because he had ideas about the church that were very unfavorable. He did not believe in verbal confessions, indulgences, and that the church should not own any land. Of course this didn't sit well with the clergy who owned property to say the least. John Wyclif is called before a council of bishops to defend his statements

The first and most noticeable theme is religion; this is a key issue in the Enlightenment. The period was marked with growing anti-clerical sentiments, as the proclamations of religious clergy imposed great restrictions on the life of common people. This anti-clerical sentiment was not necessarily an attack on the existence of God, but an objection to organized religion. Similar to other scholars of his time, Voltaire was a deist; he believed in God on the basis of natural, logical conclusions not