Week 6 Flashcards
Spain as Holy Land (when?) and the impact of this idea (p. 125, 132
Spain was considered popular as a holy land by c.1500. It formed the justification for the conquest of the Americas and the expanding of Christianity through the slave trade. Its prophetic traditions nurtured by a reconquest inspired a sense that the Iberian Wars required ultimate fulfilment in recovery of Jerusalem.
Florence´s civic exceptionalism
In Florence, the cross acted as a sign for both the crusade and the city’s populace, and the participation in crusading provided opportunities to reinforce civic exceptionalism
Royal holy warriors / kingdom´s holy warrior kings
Royal warriors such as Charlemagne became canonised. They were kings in countries such as Sweden, France, Castile. The French king’s habit of crusading helped create religion of monarchy
Louis IX of France
He attacked Damietta in Egypt in 1249. He was active in promoting the crusades and the providential destiny of France
Agincourt
Henry V chaplain presented the English at Agincourt (1415) as ‘God’s people’. It documented languages and images of holy war made familiar by crusading
The religious meaning if the French King’s coronation
The French King was required to make explicit his duties and responsibilities to the Christian church under oath. He called the oath of himself and the kingdom to defend to church if need be. It included psalms, prayers, celebration of mass.
The Gallican Church
Used to denote the independent relationship between the French Church and Rome. It was governed by the king in France, he tried to protect Gallican liberties from papal intervention
The Placards Affair of 1534
A great number of small printed broadsheets were posted in places throughout Paris and a number of other northern cities. Intended to be seen by French Catholics on their was to mass that morning. It was an organised attack on the holy eucharist.
The Social meaning of Mass according to Bossy and Sabean
It was in the celebration of the eucharist that quarrels became impersonal and retired to the edges of the community, as people focused on the celebration of God and the heaven among them.
The message of Francis I’s procession of January 1535
This was a calculated intermingling of the sacred and profane. The corporate and religious community was present. This event signalled the difference between heterodoxy and heresy.
The purpose of civil government for Jean Calvin
It is to cherish and protect the outward worship of God, to defend the doctrine of piety and the position of the church. To form social behaviour to civil righteousness , to promote general peace and tranquillity.
The French Nobility and the geography of Calvinism in France
The French nobility converted to Calvinism but tried to protected it from the royalty and this spread throughout France to Normandy (the countryside) and the southwest (Bearn and Navarre) where it could be protected
Anne du Bourg
He was a French Magistrate and a protestant marytr
Jean Boucher
Wrote the Just Deposition of Henry III. He was a theologian of the Sorbonne . He was one of the founding members of the sixteen in Paris. He was best known as one of he most forceful and demonstrative preachers in any Paris pulpit.
The Social and Religious aims of the League
The League focused on internalizing faith as a cleansing and purifying agent. There spiritual goal was to recreate the city of God on earth. They wanted to clean up the abuses in the fiscal and judicial systems, people were seen gambling and drinking instead of observing Sunday as the Lord’s day.
