Manuscript illumination dating around 1490 showing Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont (1095), where he preached the First Crusade. The catholic church and the papacy were very powerful in the feudal period, often rivaling or usurping royalty. Public domain image via Wikimedia CommonsThe...
Emma Smith, Professor of Shakespeare Studies at the University of Oxford and the author of 'This is Shakespeare', tackles the big questions about William Shakespeare. Watch Now 8. Pope Leo X’s Papal Bull of 1520, Exsurge Domine, was the first response from the papacy condemning Luther 9. ...
Pope is the title, since about the 9th century, of the bishop of Rome, the leader of the Roman Catholic Church. The pope is regarded as the successor of St. Peter and has supreme power of jurisdiction over the Catholic Church in matters of faith and mora
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: provided by The Free Dictionary Archive >> Pope Urban VII Dies Just 13 Days into Papacy (1590)Urban VII was chosen to succeed Sixtus V as pope on September 15, 1590. His death from malaria 13 days later made his the shortest papal reign in history. His very sho...
15. Pope Benedict IX was made Pope three times, sold his papacy, was the first pope to resign, and had homosexual orgies in the Lateran palace. –Source 16-20 Interesting Facts About Popes 16. Medieval Pope Gregory IX considered cats to be the ‘incarnation of Satan.’ Leading to a mass...
the Papacy. The irony of the fact that the seat of the oldest and largest Christian population in the world stands on the spot where the first attempts were made to destroy the new religion is obvious. Given the temporal power the Church wielded (and still does to a certain degree, ...
territory of the papacy was confined to the Vatican and Lateran palaces and the villa of Castel Gandolfo. The popes consistently refused to recognize this arrangement. The Lateran Treaty of Feb. 11, 1929, between the Vatican and the kingdom of Italy, established the autonomy of the Holy See....
leaving it in ruins. europe was too preoccupied by other wars and conflicts with the papacy to take much notice. only king louis ix of france wasoutraged enough to mount the seventhcrusade in response, but his weak effort was crushed with tens of thousands of perishments. the crusade chro...
The bankers from Florence (and the Medici Family) used the Gold Florin to finance cities all over Europe. They helped during the Hundred Years War by financing the English Kings, and even financed the papacy. 31. It was under threat of a crazy serial killer between 1974 and 1985 ...
Governor Echeandía chose Vallejo, who had distinguished himself even then, to become a San Diego delegate to the Provincial Legislature, which was meeting then in Monterey. At 23, he was excommunicated by the Catholic church for failing to return a book that the Papacy had banned. Career of...