1. The Church in the Renaissance

2. Objectives: End Schism Eradicate Heresy Reform the Church

3. Attacks clerical corruption Used scripture to expose the papacy Bible should be Christians sole authority Condemns pilgrimages, worshiping of saints, any rites and rituals Followers were called “Lollards”

4. Marriage between England and the Bohemia lead to the spread of Lollard ideas to Bohemia Calls for reform of the Church Attacks papacy Council of Constance convicts Hus of heresy (1415) and he is burned at the stake

5. The line of Popes from the end of the Great Schism (1417) to the beginning of the Reformation

6. Concern over finance Neoptism: giving family members jobs

7. Borgia pope (Machiavelli) Debauchery and sensuality Raises two sons, one nephew and the brother of his mistress to the cardinalate Incestuous, immoral man

8. The Warrior Pope Personally led armies in battle Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel

9. Patron of the Renaissance culture Son of Lorenzo d’ Medici Arch Bishop at age 8, cardinal at 13 Pope at 37 yrs Practice nepotism 95 Thesis published under his rule