Tag: Renaissance
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War of the Roses lesson
Can I just say that a few weeks ago when we got back into our history lessons I was incredibly excited? I’ve been eagerly looking forward to digging into all of the fun of the Renaissance and Reformation (huh, I thought I had a landing page for this), and we kicked this year off with…
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Did Ponce de Leon find the Fountain of Youth?
How many of you saw the most recent Pirates of the Caribbean film with the Fountain of Youth? I did and found the lore included in it very interesting and amusing. Not to mention that I loved the ending with the Spaniards coming in and destroying it declaring, “Only God can grant eternity.” AWESOME! Well, this…
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Sometimes religion is just the excuse for the war
We all talk about the confusion and the craziness of World War 1 and how the sides chosen was confusing as all get out. Well, let me take you back about 400 years for a confusing piece of history called the Thirty Years War. We are actually coming up on the 400th anniversary of the…
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Why did Martin Luther’s protest work when the others didn’t?
Yesterday I talked about several forerunners to the Reformation. Men who laid the ground work for Martin Luther’s 95 Theses, and who said many of the same things Luther did, but they were killed or lived in hiding because of what they taught. Why was Martin Luther successful with his reformation, when they weren’t? Changes…
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Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation Unit
On October 31, 1517 Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the Wittenburg door church. In two weeks it will be the 500th anniversary of those events. Disagree with his stand or agree, you can’t disagree with how much he changed the world both in the short term and the long term. This week I’m…