... Remember that you are able to release them, for as soon as the coin in the coffer rings the soul from purgatory springs" (Tetzel). Tetzel, a Roman Catholic friar and preacher, was persuading many residents to add more money to the coffer because the more money they donated, the "safer" from hell they and their family and would be ... ...
... moment in chapter two is then immediately followed by an instance of self-realization in chapter three in which Stephen repents and returns to the orthodoxy of the church: "The preacher's knife had probed deeply into his disclosed conscience and he felt now that his soul was festering in sin God's turn had come. Like a beast in its lair his soul ... ...
... 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 often ... ...
... the fact that the literature of reform is widespread, the peasantry remains largely illiterate. Churches, devoid of visual aids become an abstraction to the illiterate. The spoken words of the preacher become central to the church liturgy. During the Reformation national languages and literature were greatly advanced by the wide dissemination of religious literature written in the languages of the people ... ...
