Tag: #early-modern-period

To what extent did the trial of Giordano Bruno set a precedent for that of Galileo?

The trials of Giordano Bruno and Galileo were connected, not because Bruno was a proto-Galileo, but because the Inquisition associated Galileo’s Copernicanism with Bruno’s condemned Hermeticism and theological heresies, creating a precedent for condemning Galileo. 2008-02-15

What were the principal factors governing state formation in the early modern period?

Humanism, the Reformation, centralized administration, the decline of feudalism, and the rise of national identity. 2007-03-10