... 's popes" ideals but one might look of it as an attempt to build a reliable curia (council) during the period when increased political prestige led to undesirable struggles between French and Italian cardinals. Most popes of Avignon were able, believing in the abolishment of clerical abuses and reform. John XXII (1316-1334) was heavily intent on sanitizing the church finances and reforming ... had developed since the thirteenth century. Upon the death of Gregory XI (1370-1378), who had brought the papacy from Avignon back to Rome, the cardinals split into two factions, Italian and French...

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... , was thus able to help many citizens in Germany by breaking away from the church. According to document five, "We see that there is no gold and almost no silver in our German land. What little may be left is drawn away daily by the new schemes of the church" (Hutten). Hutten, a German nobleman, was propagating the belief that ... the lack of gold and silver left in the land of Germany was because of the constant devouring of money by Rome. After Luther broke away from the church and created his now famous 95 theses ... ...

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... whatever he wanted. To be more specific, Rodrigo bribed the conclave; the group of Cardinals that vote for the who will become the next Pope, with four Mule loads of silver, as mentioned on page fifteen of the introduction of Johann Burchards diary. Additionally, Johann Burchard, the Conclave's Master of Ceremonies and was a leading figure under Pope Alexander VI's reign, furthers ... Papacy. When Pope Alexander was trying to get elected to the Papacy, he bought out two thirds of the cardinals in the Conclave by offering them four mule loads of silver and told them to vote for him as Po...

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... the Church's sale of indulgences by writing the Ninety-Five Theses. The movement spread across Europe and supporters of it faced violent persecution in areas such as France and the Italian Kingdoms, which were strictly Catholic. The Reformation was most prominent in England, Scotland, Scandinavia, and The German States, and these regions remain mostly Protestant today. The wealth of the Catholic ... ...

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... believing that the Earth was in the middle of the universe. The Scientific Revolution possibly would not be called the Scientific Revolution without the contributions of Galileo. Galileo was an Italian astronomer who continued the work of Copernicus. He built his own telescope to observe the moons of Jupiter and created the Pendulum, which is a weight suspended from a pivot so that ... ...

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... world of science and humanism when it was forced to encounter scholasticism and absolutism that held power in the Catholic Church. The devastating result brought about the end of the Italian Renaissance as well as Galileo's liberty. Galileo was an individual who, as young as nineteen, displayed his overwhelming knowledge in science. After assuming his second lectureship at the University of ... ...

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... merely a convenient vehicle for the subtle genius " of scholars, authors, and artists of the Renaissance (Kekewich 3). Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) was labeled as the "founding father" of humanism" during the Italian Renaissance. His achievements in the retrieval of Greek and Roman traditions, including rhetoric, and his attempts to follow classical style lead to the movement itself (Humanism: Italy" 2). Petrarch opted out ... ...

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... none like the other, they paralleled one another in many ways while correcting their society's traditional thinking. The ingenious cultural impacts of Michelangelo during the Renaissance are still principal to Italian as well as Western culture today. Additionally, Martin Luther's inspirational journey to disrupt the corruption of the church instilled an entirely new branch in Christianity. Alas, Galileo's studies contributing to ... ...

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... law set a precedent for a new European law The revival Roman Law was the last part of medieval synthesis. Roman Law contained the universal principles crucial to medieval synthesis. Irnerius an Italian jurist taught at the University of Bologna, which was the first university aimed at studying the roman law. Irnerius and his students applied the study of Roman Law to the ... ...

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... important medieval encyclopedia Speculum Majus was the work of a Dominican, Vincent of Beauvais. Other Dominicans were the German mystics Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler, and Heinrich Suso, as well as the Italian preacher and religious reformer Savonarola. In the later Middle Ages the order was equalled in influence only by the Franciscans, the two orders sharing much power in the Church and ... ...

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... sway among the community is not at all likely. Secondly, there is the case of Galeazzo Caracciolo. In this case, the law was twisted to grant a divorce to Caracciolo, an Italian nobleman, due to his social status. Several years before his arrival in Geneva, Caracciolo had married a woman of incredible social status and wealth, much like himself and his family. Her ... ...

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... to Europe and gave them immense capability for globalization. Europe also had very favorable trade routes with other regions of the world. They had lopsided trade with the Americas for silver and in Africa with the African slave trade. European merchants were present in marginally all of the ports around the world from Asia to southeast Africa, and many regions were ... ...

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... 's career and shows him to be a pugnacious fighter with an uncanny ability to choose words with care to reflect his sincere convictions. Drake's studies and opinions are arrived from Galileo's Italian writing and much is based on his interpretation and must be given a semblance of latitude. Drake's perspective of Galileo throughout his book is of an inventor and scientist that believes ... ...

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... . In politics the Dutch and English retain constitutional, representative governments and hold fast to their civil liberties. In the early 1600's during the height of the Protestant-Catholic wars, the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei announced that from his study of the stars, direct observations had demonstrated that Copernicus" theory was not just a matter of intellectual convenience, but was in fact also ... ...

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... and shared in a unitive manner. That manner is loving, life-giving, and life-affirming according to the life teaching of Christ. In many countries in Europe, however "apart from the Italian Catholic church there is hardly any organized religious opposition to the rights of gay Europeans. Same-sex unions are a reality in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands. France and Germany ... ...

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... and shared in a unitive manner. That manner is loving, life-giving, and life-affirming according to the life teaching of Christ. In many countries in Europe, however "apart from the Italian Catholic church there is hardly any organized religious opposition to the rights of gay Europeans. Same-sex unions are a reality in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands. France and Germany ... ...

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Galileo Galilei, an Italian physicist and astronomer, discovered that the Sun was at the center of the universe and that the Earth orbited on an axis around it. Because his beliefs and research went ... ...

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