HUM-2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Huldrych Zwingli, John Calvin, Puritans
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The north: pessimistic, emphasized money, catholic church has less of a hold, art is a commodity traded for money, strong upper middle class, no strong clergy class though, tapestry industry is large there, they were practical. Ulrich zwingli: wanted to be the leader of the protestant church in zurich, lived with a woman and had 6 children with her without being married, challenged most principles of catholicism. In geneva, switzerland: strict dude, did not want swearing, drinking, dancing, drunkenness, blasphemy, no arms, religious police state, roots of puritans who went to plymouth rock. That jesus christ was born a jew: martin luther wrote. On the jews and their lies: condemns the jews, reverses his views in this book from the last one he wrote about jews. Printing press: extremely rare, scared the church, allowed people to print things that the church did not sanction. Guttenberg: guttenberg bible was a huge seller, only had 42 lines.
