... their popularity. These books not only could be mass-produced and used to spread humanities such as literature and philosophy, enabling more people to adopt these ideas, but also bypassed Ecclesiastical control and it was made possible to disseminate ideologies, opinions and knowledge which were secular, further catalyzing the people's spirit of inquiry. Another example, was the discovery of the mariner ... ...

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... community religious activities caused many people to "lose the faith" that once was the foundation of almost all civilizations of the world. All of this "exposed the crying need for ecclesiastical reform, thus laying the foundations for the great reform efforts of the sixteenth century" (McKay,Hill,etc. 398). The sixteenth century, of course, is another story. ...

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... and burned alive; similar scenes occurred in Stuttgart, Ulm, Speyer, and Dresden. Two thousand Jews were massacred in Strausburg: in Mainz as many as 12,000" (Davies p. 412). It took "ecclesiastical and secular authorities combined to outlaw the movement" (Strayer and Munro p. 465). The plague reappeared continuously every so often throughout Europe until almost modern times. The initial Black Death prepared ... ...

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