HUMAN-111 Lecture 10: Middle Ages and Renaissance - 10
24 Sep 2020
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Conplicated situation: popes let the situation play out for long time, which was counter to the healing, the bringing together nature of the pope was supposed to have image of the. Second schism, 1439-1449: pope manages to get much mediterranean and european. Christian group to swear allegiance to the church, incorporated into latin christendom: rebuilds the pope"s prestige, pope reigns in the power of the councils, pope proclaims that appeal to council over the head of the pope was heretical. Luther, although initially controversial, turned out to be one of most moderate reformers. Luther wasn"t really a humanist; destined by his family to be part of the emerging upper middle class elite. His family was a peasant family, but his father was v. economically successful in mining, Luther was expected to continue upward social mobility of family. Sent to university of erfurt, then on to university of wittenberg.
