Council of Trent

Examples of Council of Trent in the following topics:

• Discontent with the Roman Catholic Church

  • Hus was later condemned and burned at the stake despite promise of safe-conduct when he voiced his views to church leaders at the Council of Constance (1414–1418).
  • Wycliffe, who died in 1384, was also declared a heretic by the Council of Constance, and his corpse was exhumed and burned.
  • The Roman Catholic Church responded with a Counter-Reformation initiated by the Council of Trent and spearheaded by the new order of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits), specifically organized to counter the Protestant movement.
  • Execution of Jan Hus at the Council of Constance in 1415.
  • Painting representing the artist's depiction of The Council of Trent.

• Mannerism and the Counter-Reformation

  • Church pressure to restrain religious imagery affected art from the 1530s and influenced several decrees from the final session of the Council of Trent in 1563.
  • The reforms that resulted from this council are what set the basis for Counter-Reformation art.
  • Scipione Pulzone's painting of the Lamentation, commissioned for the Gesu Church in 1589, gives a clear demonstration of what the Council of Trent was striving for in the new style of religious art.
  • With the focus of the painting giving direct attention to the crucifixion of Christ, it complies with the religious content of the council and shows the story of the Passion while keeping Christ in the image of the ideal human.
  • On the other hand, in Paolo Veronese's painting The Last Supper (subsequently renamed The Feast in the House of Levi), one can see what the Council regarded as inappropriate.

• Defining the Baroque Period

  • Baroque is a period of artistic style that started around 1600 in Rome, Italy, and spread throughout the majority of Europe.
  • The Baroque is a period of artistic style that started around 1600 in Rome, Italy, and spread throughout the majority of Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries.
  • The popularity of the style was in fact encouraged by the Catholic Church, which had decided at the Council of Trent that the arts should communicate religious themes and direct emotional involvement in response to the Protestant Reformation.
  • The use of the chiaroscuro technique is a well known trait of Baroque art.
  • In music, the Baroque style makes up a large part of the classical canon.

• The Church During the Italian Renaissance

  • The Renaissance began in times of religious turmoil.
  • While the schism was resolved by the Council of Constance (1414), a resulting reform movement known as Conciliarism sought to limit the power of the pope.
  • Although the papacy eventually emerged supreme in ecclesiastical matters by the Fifth Council of the Lateran (1511), it was dogged by continued accusations of corruption, most famously in the person of Pope Alexander VI, who was accused variously of simony, nepotism and fathering four children.
  • It was also a time of increased contact with Greek culture, opening up new avenues of learning, especially in the fields of philosophy, poetry, classics, rhetoric, and political science, fostering a spirit of humanism–all of which would influence the Church.
  • The Counter-Reformation, also called the Catholic Reformation or the Catholic Revival, was the period of Catholic resurgence initiated in response to the Protestant Reformation, beginning with the Council of Trent (1545–1563) and ending at the close of the Thirty Years' War (1648).

• Michelangelo

  • In the Renaissance, contrapposto poses were thought of as a distinctive feature of antique sculpture.
  • The sculpture was intended to be placed on the exterior of the Duomo, and has become one of the most recognized works of Renaissance sculpture.
  • The work is part of a larger scheme of decoration within the chapel that represents much of the doctrine of the Catholic Church.
  • The ill reception that the work received may be tied to the Counter Reformation and the Council of Trent, which lead to a preference for more conservative religious art devoid of classical references.
  • Michelangelo designed the dome of St.

• France and Cardinal Richelieu

  • Richelieu's successful policies leading to the consolidation of the royal power, centralization of the state, and strengthening the international position of France paved the way for the authoritarian rule of Louis XIV.
  • He became the first bishop in France to implement the institutional reforms prescribed by the Council of Trent.
  • Like Concini, the Bishop was one of the closest advisers of Louis XIII's mother, Marie de Médicis.
  • The defeat of Habsburg forces at the Battle of Lens, and their failure to prevent French invasion of Catalonia effectively spelled the end for Habsburg domination of the continent.
  • Local and even religious interests were now subordinated to those of the whole nation and of the embodiment of the nation — the King.

• What is a family?

  • But what if you have none of these relations?
  • Consider each of the following examples:
  • You can see a good example of the changing nature of families in the family structure of Ancient Rome.
  • The nuclear family emerged during the late medieval period and was formalized during the Council of Trent, in which marriage was defined as, "The conjugal union of man and woman, contracted between two qualified persons, which obliges them to live together throughout life. " While a variety of family structures continue to exist around the world today, including polygamous and polygynous families in many societies (including the U.S., the predominant form is built upon monogamous sexual and emotional relations (though, as noted above, this is no longer the majority form).
  • A map of the world regions where polygamy is a common form of family structure.

• International Diplomacy

  • War loomed in late 1861 between the United States and Britain over the Trent Affair, involving the U.S.
  • The cost to Britain of a war with the United States was high: the immediate loss of American grain shipments, the end of exports to the United States, and the seizure of billions of pounds invested in American securities.
  • By late spring of 1863 France was in need of Confederate cotton and other Caribbean commerce to sustain the French conquest of Mexico.
  • The Trent Affair brought a U.S.
  • The Trent Affair brought a U.S.

• Blogs, Podcasts, and Cyberspace

  • Cyberspace describes the flow of digital data through the network of interconnected computers.
  • An early milestone in the importance of blogs in politics came in 2002, when bloggers focused on comments by Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott .
  • Meanwhile, an increasing number of experts began blogging, making blogs a source of in-depth analysis.
  • A podcast is a type of digital media consisting of an episodic series of audio, video, PDF, or ePub files subscribed to and downloaded through web syndication or streamed online to a computer or mobile device.
  • The Trent Lott-Strom Thurmond scandal was first picked up and publicized by early political blogs.

• Confederate Diplomacy

  • The legal status of the Confederate States of America remained a subject of controversy after the war.
  • Throughout the early years of the war, British Foreign Secretary Lord John Russell, Emperor Napoleon III of France, and, to a lesser extent, British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston, showed interest in recognition of the Confederacy or at least in mediation of the war.
  • Secretary of State William H.
  • A war with the United States would be costly to Britain, resulting in the immediate loss of American grain shipments, the end of exports to the United States, and the seizure of billions of pounds invested in American securities.
  • The Trent Affair involved the illegal boarding of a British ship in an attempt to enforce the Union's blockade of the Confederacy.