Western Civilization - History Of European Society

240 Chapter 13 exploitation of his domain, and encouraged the devel- opment of trade. His Welsh connections—he had been born in ...

The Renaissance: Political Renewal and Intellectual Change 241 Kurfürstvereinwith many of the powers of a central gov- ernment w ...

242 Chapter 13 Roman Empire and Hungary was not. Both were elec- tive monarchies whose powerful Diets or representative assembli ...

The Renaissance: Political Renewal and Intellectual Change 243 two successive campaigns, was able to annex much of Beloruss and ...

244 Chapter 13 the peasants. Chivalric literature affected to despise them, and ecclesiastical theorists found their activities ...

The Renaissance: Political Renewal and Intellectual Change 245 Rome to Venice and the other Italian states. By the mid-fifteenth ...

246 Chapter 13 universal man whose person combined intellectual and physical excellence and who was capable of function- ing hon ...

The Renaissance: Political Renewal and Intellectual Change 247 Such women as Vitoria Colonna and More’s daughter, Margaret Roper ...

248 Chapter 13 of the Fathers of the church was Erasmus of Rotterdam (1469–1536). Believing that corrupted texts had led to fals ...

The Renaissance: Political Renewal and Intellectual Change 249 In the Middle Ages, the dominant form of history had been the chr ...

250 Chapter 13 their own discoveries, but they made possible the great philosophical achievements of the seventeenth century. Th ...

The Renaissance: Political Renewal and Intellectual Change 251 message was often unlike that of their pagan originals. To the hu ...

252 Chapter 13 Century. Medieval scholars knew and quoted classical writers, but the Renaissance that began in Florence in the g ...

CHAPTER OUTLINE I. Introduction II. Late Medieval Demands for Religious Reform A. Anticlericalism and the Decline of Papal Autho ...

254 Chapter 14 anxiety. At the same time, higher literacy rates, already apparent in the fourteenth century, narrowed the intel- ...

The Religious Reformations of the Sixteenth Century 255 international scandal for several reasons. The pope was living outside h ...

256 Chapter 14 Pisa elected Alexander V, who was generally accepted throughout Europe. However, the two prior claimants, arguing ...

The Religious Reformations of the Sixteenth Century 257 The Struggle for the Transformation of Piety The issue of church governa ...

258 Chapter 14 literature. Manuals such as Walter Hilton’s Scale of Perfec- tionbecame extremely popular with lay people and wer ...

The Religious Reformations of the Sixteenth Century 259 an English translation of the Bible and organized a march on London in 1 ...