Brief explanations of important details in history, suitable for introducing concepts to beginning history students or as reinforcement for those with more experience
Each video has a key synopsis at the end, useful as a tl;dr or a quick review for those pressed for time.
the Byzantine empire didn't spread Christianity to russia, it spread Christianity to Rus' which was a totally different state. the current russia is a descendant of the Muscovy that only adopted the name russia in 1720s, as it conquered Ukrainian lands, i.e. the true political center of the old state of Rus' that dissolved 500 years earlier
I'm part Venetian and we despise the Italian Masonic Republic. 1871 consolidated British-Masonic rule. Garibaldi was a traitor working for City of London.
"Wycliffe is the first main advocate for a vernacular bible, one that people can read" In this his time yes, but there were others before him like Peter Waldo who commissioned a translation of the bible into his own Franco-Provençal language around 200 years before Wycliffe and ended up with a lot of the same teachings from the bible and was also declared a heretic. Of course Waldo is not the first to translate the bible into common language but there seems to be a real head scratcher break in practice with the medieval roman church wheras earlier christians had made it their goal to get the bible translated into different languages. Cyril and Methodius translated the bible into slavic around 870 There is also Jerome who in around 400ad translated the bible from greek and hebrew into the latin vulgate which literally means the vulgar (common) tongue since greek (which the new testament was written in) was falling out of style in the west. And of course before that we have the disciple's of Jesus using the common greek which was commonly legible throughout the roman empire rather than insisting on the deeply cherished languages of Aramaic and especially Hebrew. They prioritized the message over the language. The Roman church had radically changed(though not all at once) by the time wycliffe came to the scene, there should have been no need for wycliffe's translation because common folk should already have had access to the scriptures in their language, "if you love me, feed my sheep!"
There were also many before Wycliff/Hus. Even in the 9th century was Claudius of Turin, Ratromnus and Gottachalk of Orbais. And 10th-12th century Barebgar of Tours, Peter of Bruys and Peter Waldo. Porto-Protestant beliefs are the original Christian beliefs. It’s the RCC that separated.
Good, concise summary but maybe a little too much emphasis on the religious motivations for the conflict, which were one aspect of resentment towards the empire of the Habsburgs, but other factors such as high taxation, lack of direct representation and governance and the desire to be an economically and politically independent confederation were the real driving force throughout the 80 years of the Dutch struggle. In many ways the Dutch were on the independence drive 100-200 years before the American colonists did the same thing with the British empire.
Thanks for this video, but if you don't mind I have a couple of corrections: - Religious conflicts and the Spanish Inquisition were one aspect of why the people of the Netherlands started to resent the Habsburgers, the other aspects were the high taxes and the fact that Philip tried to unite all of his possessions into a single unified empire, taking away many of the liberties that the Netherlanders were used to. - Willem van Oranje was not a Netherlander, but German-born. Emperor Karel V had send him as a child to the Netherlands to be raised Catholic. - After the death of Willem van Oranje, military leadership went to his son Maurits, but political leadership went to the lawyerJohan van Oldenbarnevelt. - Defeating the Armada was a big moment for British naval history, but after that the British naval power started to wane again. Generally the battle of Trafalgar is considered to be the moment when Britain becomes the world's greatest naval power. I think though that becoming a naval power has nothing to do with anything but Britain being an Island nation, it is the logical thing to do.
William the Silent was just the heir to a Lutheran German barony before he was willed the domains of a cousin, the last of the first line of Princes Of Orange (a semi-independent French principality, much like Monaco technically is), and was raised at court of Emperor Charles V (who was also King Of Spain and Naples, and Duke Of Burgundy, not the separate County of Burgundy but Flanders and parts north), because William was now the richest non-Hapsburg in Europe and you just cannot have someone like that growing up on his own. When Charles died, William moved to his Low Country estates and took up his hereditary offices as Stadtholder (Speaker of Parliament) in Holland, Utrecht, and other Dutch provinces.
Portraying Kulikovo Battle as a stand of Muskovy against the Tatars Yoke is a late propagandistic myth. It was merely one of the acts of Great Troubles (the war of succession) in Golden Horde, with Mamai attempting to take over the Tokhtamysh thone and collect the long overdue Muskovy's tributes. Muskovy was refusing to pay the tribute to the disputed contender and in this battle was siding with Tokhtamysh.
The lands of the Czech crown were not controlled by the Germans, on the contrary, the Czech king was the king of the Germans (the Germans as a nation did not come into existence until after the Napoleonic wars, until then Germany was a region and the Czechs were also considered Germans in this sense). The Czech lands consisted of Prague, Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia (this is still the case) and possibly other countries.
Thank you. This was very informative. Luther read the book of Romans in his Bible - that's what changed! He wasn't heretical. The Catholic church was - selling indulgences, a payment so that the congregant was released from purgatory after death - no such thing is written in the Word of God. Romans 3:28 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by FAITH apart from the deeds of the law. Ephesians 2:8-9 8 For by grace you have been saved through FAITH, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, 9 NOT of works, lest anyone should boast.
Wasn't the policy of the christianity highjacked by the mafia mentality like the rest of religious orders to this very day?. Take the look at putin showing himself with whoever is dressed off in a vestige religious order of the nation.
God bless the true Christian heroes of real tolerance and true free thinking that stood up to popish vanity and catholic greed. Proud ex catholic here that just can't even act like the catholic church never did many evil things.
Another one of those loveless readings on anything historical. It shows zero commitment to the story which could have been so exciting considering what the City States and the Renaissance did produce. I guess the reader is himself remote, not just physically but in terms of some sort of cognitive connection. Also a halting production in terms of punctuation missed or misapplied. A lot of supposed meaning escapes....
Thank you for this very watchable thumbnail on the lives of Wycliffe and Hus. I am just beginning to explore the origins of the Reformation, and your video is the best I viewed so far.
