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4 09, 2017

What’s the Lupercalia? Roman holidays – Religion

By |2019-02-14T08:10:07-08:00September 4th, 2017|Religion, Romans|Comments Off on What’s the Lupercalia? Roman holidays – Religion

The decorated ceiling of the cave where people may have celebrated the Lupercalia, under the Palatine Hill in Rome. Februa parties in February In the time of the kings of Rome, [...]

23 08, 2017

What is a Christian priest? History of Religion

By |2017-08-23T09:57:31-07:00August 23rd, 2017|Religion, Romans|Comments Off on What is a Christian priest? History of Religion

Priest blessing people who have the plague Very soon after the crucifixion of Jesus, by around 40 or 50 AD, the early Christians began to choose leaders from among themselves. The Christians called these [...]

23 08, 2017

What does it mean to be Pope? History of Christianity

By |2018-04-24T23:11:02-07:00August 23rd, 2017|Religion, Romans|Comments Off on What does it mean to be Pope? History of Christianity

Peter and Paul, in a mosaic from Ravenna (500s AD) In the later Roman Empire and the Middle Ages, the Pope was the leader of the Catholic Church. Whenever there was a question [...]

22 08, 2017

Byzantine Iconoclasm: History of Christianity

By |2019-09-09T19:03:29-07:00August 22nd, 2017|Medieval, Religion|Comments Off on Byzantine Iconoclasm: History of Christianity

Byzantine iconoclasm: an Icon of St. Nicholas (Russia) Byzantine iconoclasm By the early 700s AD, the Roman Empire had seen four hundred years of religious arguments about what or who Jesus Christ was. The Arians believed that [...]

22 08, 2017

Gregory the Great – Early medieval Italy

By |2019-07-25T10:55:59-07:00August 22nd, 2017|Medieval, Religion|Comments Off on Gregory the Great – Early medieval Italy

Pope Gregory the Great writing, carved near Strasbourg, about 875 AD. That's under Charlemagne's grandchildren. The Holy Spirit (in the form of a dove) sits on his shoulder and dictates to [...]

7 08, 2017

Renaissance Science in Europe

By |2017-08-07T21:36:38-07:00August 7th, 2017|Modern Europe, Science|Comments Off on Renaissance Science in Europe

Copernicus, a Renaissance astronomer Starting in the 1200s AD, as Europe got richer, great universities got started there. In the later Middle Ages, West Asia and India suffered from the Mongol invasions. West Asian people were too poor to [...]

7 08, 2017

Jesuits after 1700 – History of religion

By |2019-10-14T20:49:17-07:00August 7th, 2017|Modern Europe, Religion|Comments Off on Jesuits after 1700 – History of religion

Jesuits after 1700 : Jesuit teachers in Brazil Jesuits become very powerful By the 1700s AD, the Jesuits owned a lot of farms and mines in countries all over the world. The governments [...]

7 08, 2017

History of the Jesuits – Catholicism

By |2019-10-14T20:22:51-07:00August 7th, 2017|Modern Europe, Religion|Comments Off on History of the Jesuits – Catholicism

History of the Jesuits: Ignatius of Loyola, who started the Jesuits Ignatius of Loyola In the early 1500s AD, the Protestants were the new thing in Europe. Protestants were getting more and more popular. [...]

7 08, 2017

Niccolo Machiavelli – The Prince – Florence

By |2019-11-21T09:20:53-08:00August 7th, 2017|Modern Europe, Philosophy|Comments Off on Niccolo Machiavelli – The Prince – Florence

Niccolo Machiavelli When did Machiavelli live? Around 1500 AD, Machiavelli was working for the government in the city-state of Florence. Florence was smack in the middle of the Renaissance, which meant that everybody [...]

4 08, 2017

Raphael – Biography – Renaissance art

By |2018-04-23T09:44:15-07:00August 4th, 2017|Art, Modern Europe|Comments Off on Raphael – Biography – Renaissance art

Raphael's early selfie as a teenager Raphael, Titian, Michelangelo, and Leonardo da Vinci were the four greatest painters of the Renaissance in Italy. Raphael was born in 1483, when Michelangelo was eight years old and Leonardo was already grown up; Titian [...]

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