D. Religious Reformation
In 16th century, Martin Luther, a German theologist, started a Church Reformation which led to the appearance of Protestant. He attacked the corruption of the Roman Catholic, and proposed that the Church should give up the property, the clergies should live a simple life. Martin Luther also put forward that everyone could be priest for himself. This improved the common people’s social position, and emancipated the human beings’ thoughts.
I. What is Renaissance?
1. Definition The Renaissance (14th – mid-17th century), which means rebirth and revival. The renaissance, therefore, in essence, is a historical period in which the European humanist thinkers and scholars tried to get rid of those old feudalist ideas in medieval Europe, to introduce new ideas that expressed the interests of the