Unit7- Renaissance and Reformation
The Renaissance Era was a time period where there was rebirth in knowledge and art.
These are some well known people of the Renaissance Era:
These are some well known people of the Renaissance Era:
Martin Luther and the Reformation of the Church:
Martin Luther was a German monk who shortly after the selling of indulgences wrote the 95 Thesis'. These statements were everything wrong that Luther thought was unholy about what the church had become. From Martin Luther's reformation Protestant was formed. From Protestantism Lutheranism, Calvinism, and Anglicanism were formed.
Machiavelli and "The Prince"
The prince is simply a book written by Niccolò Machiavelli. This book describes how a Ruler should be. That one should know how to control firmly, but efficiently. That a ruler should be an equal amount of feared and loved by their citizens.
A part of the book states,"Because how one ought to live is so far removed from how one lives that he who lets go of what is done for that which one ought to do sooner learns ruin than his own preservation: because a man who might want to make a show of goodness in all things necessarily comes to ruin among so many who are not good. Because of this it is necessary for a prince, wanting to maintain himself, to learn how to be able to be not good and to use this and not use it according to necessity."
A part of the book states,"Because how one ought to live is so far removed from how one lives that he who lets go of what is done for that which one ought to do sooner learns ruin than his own preservation: because a man who might want to make a show of goodness in all things necessarily comes to ruin among so many who are not good. Because of this it is necessary for a prince, wanting to maintain himself, to learn how to be able to be not good and to use this and not use it according to necessity."