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
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