HIS109Y1 Lecture : History lecture- oct 25.doc
Document Summary
One of the great lessons taught by state religious builders was that the power of the state can in fact should be used in order to control citizens, to act and think and believe in predetermined ways. Idea of extraordinary criminal behavior was central mechanism in operation of states. ] Individual rights and rights of the citizen can in fact be superseded by collective rights of the state. In early modern europe, after reformation idea was abroad everywhere. In order to ensure they had a tight control and stop any further losses, roman church reorganized itself as a centralized powerful monarchy to try and survive and undo the processes the protestants did. Paul iii was determined to restructure the roman church. Abuses in the church had to be addressed. The only way to do this was restructure the church and reorganized it.
