History

#1. Can you explain why the different beliefs in true Christianity, that arose during the Reformation caused so much bloodshed and hatred? Is this consistent with the Christian Message? Why or why not?

#2. During the Age of Humanism and the Renaissance there was a paradigmatic shift in the concept of authority. Authority of the church, papacy, emperor, the Greek and Roman authors, etc. away from these authorities to the individual. Why?

#3. What good effects did the Hundred Years War and the Black Plague have on European society?

#4. The classification of the Middle Ages into those who prayed, those who fought and those who worked seems unnatural to the modern mind. Why, assuming it does seem unnatural to you, do you think this is so, or if it does not, why not?