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20 hours ago · Here are 10 things you need to know. 1. What does the word “transfiguration” mean? The word “transfiguration” comes from the Latin roots trans – (“across”) and figura (“form, shape”). It thus signifies a change of form or appearance. This is what happened to Jesus in the event known as the Transfiguration: His appearance ...
4 days ago · Caroline period (1625–1649) 1649–1688. 1700–1950. v. t. e. The English Reformation took place in 16th-century England when the Church of England was forced by its monarchs and elites to break away from the authority of the pope and the Catholic Church.
1 day ago · The Abbots and Priors of Late Medieval and Reformation England. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2016, ISBN: 9780198702535; 480pp.; Price: £65.00. As Martin Heale states at the very beginning of The Abbots and Priors of Late Medieval and Reformation England, ‘the importance of the late medieval abbot needs no particular emphasis’.
3 days ago · Carlos Eire’s Reformations aims to provide a readership of ‘beginners and nonspecialists’ (p. xii) with an introduction to European history between 1450 and 1650. Eire narrows down this immense task by concentrating his narrative on the history of religion. The central event of his book is the Reformation, the splitting of Western ...
5 days ago · Renaissance ideas and ways of thinking also began spreading to the rest of Europe in the 14th and 15th centuries. The Renaissance as a unified historical period ended in Italy with the fall of Rome in 1527, and it was eclipsed by the Reformation and Counter-Reformation elsewhere in Europe by the end of the 16th century.
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3 days ago · The first lecturer to be appointed by the corporation, in 1609, was John Oxenbridge, (fn. 25) who had been one of the heads of the 'associations' and a fellow-subscriber with Fenn to the 'book of discipline' in 1588. (fn. 26) Fenn himself was appointed lecturer in 1624. (fn. 27) Sometime after 1626 he joined with the mayor and aldermen and ...
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5 days ago · The Counter-Reformation ( Latin: Contrareformatio ), also sometimes called the Catholic Revival, [1] was the period of Catholic resurgence that was initiated in response to, and as an alternative to, the Protestant Reformations at the time. It is frequently dated to have begun with the Council of Trent (1545–1563) and to end with the ...
