SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THE REFORMATION!!!

THE CATHOLIC REFORMATION

S ociety of Jesus

A buses reformed in Church practices

I ndex of Prohibited Books

N o significant change in Church doctrine

T rent, Council of

P ope Paul III

A nti-Protestant

U rsuline Order of Nuns & Carmelites

L atin Vulgate

15TH CENTURY (1400’S)

100+ days of fasting

Clergy carried out laws

Monasteries + Nunneries= the place to be

Religious shrines worshiped

Indulgence preachers common

Clergy complete with concubine, child

Church influenced education and culture

16TH CENTURY

Clergy enrollment down 1/3

Monasteries become orphanages

Teaching in the vernacular

Fines for idol worship

Clergy married

Rich, richer; poor, poorer

Clergy on the same level as commoners

EDUCATIONAL CHANGES

Education revolves around new Humanist ideas.

The works of Thomas Aquinas are looked upon for answers to Church questions.

WOMEN

WOMEN WERE NOT VIEWED AS EVIL TEMPTRESSES…

They were now exalted.

Women now more equal to men.

The idea that women distract clerics was put down

MORE EQUALITY = MORE DIVORCES

LATER MARRIAGES

Mid-late 20’s for men, early 20’s women

More remarriages due to high mortality rates

ARRANGED MARRIAGES

Parents did not force strangers to live together.

Children did have rights.

RANDOM FACTS

1/3 of Children died by age 5

½ died in their teens

Wet nurses were used by the upper class with negative consequences

Cervantes writes Don Quixote

Shakespeare is alive and well during this time period.

THAT’S ALL FOLKS!!!