HST 101 Lecture Notes - Direct Tax, French House, Late Marriage
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In 1500 the catholic church, benefiting from european prosperity, was building new churches including a new saint peter"s basilica in rome. Pope leo x raised money for the new basilica by authorizing the sale of indulgences: the german monk martin luther challenged the pope on the issue of indulgences and other practices that he considered corrupt or not christian. Luther began the protestant reformation, arguing that salvation could be by faith alone, that christian belief could be based only on the bible and on christian tradition: the protestant leader john calvin formulated a different theological position in. Protestant reformation, along with the activities of the newly established society of jesus (the jesuits) comprise the catholic reformation. : the protestant reformation led to a number of wars of religion, the last of them being concluded in 1648. Traditional thinking and witch-hunts: european concepts of the natural world were derived from both local folk traditions and judeo-christian beliefs.
