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In the sixteenth century, the Waldensians were absorbed into the Protestant movement, under the influence of early Swiss reformer Heinrich Bullinger. In some aspects the Waldensians of the Middle Ages could be seen as proto-Protestants , but they mostly did not raise the doctrinal objections characteristic of sixteenth-century Protestant ...
Founded in the 12th century by Peter Waldo as a proto-Protestant group, since the 16th century Reformation it has adopted Calvinist theology and blended into the wider Calvinist tradition. It is one of several Protestant denominations with pre-Reformation roots, and is appraised by various denominations of Protestantism as its major successor.
Peter Waldo and Waldensians; John Wycliffe and Lollardy; ... 16th century in poetry; 16th century in literature; Theater. English Renaissance theatre; Pastoral ...
Peter Waldo (/ ˈ w ɔː l d oʊ, ˈ w ɒ l-/; [1] also Valdo, Valdes, Waldes; French: Pierre Vaudès, de Vaux; Latin: Petrus Waldus, Valdus; [2] [3] c. 1140 – c. 1205) was the leader of the Waldensians, a Christian spiritual movement of the Middle Ages. The tradition that his first name was "Peter" can only be traced back to the fourteenth ...
Pope Gregory IX from medieval manuscript: Universitätsbibliothek Salzburg, M III 97, 122rb, ca. 1270) The Medieval Inquisition was a series of Inquisitions (Catholic Church bodies charged with suppressing heresy) from around 1184, including the Episcopal Inquisition (1184–1230s) and later the Papal Inquisition (1230s).
They received episcopal ordination through the Waldensians in 1467. [11]: 36 ff [12]: 107 ff These were some of the earliest Protestants, rebelling against Rome some fifty years before Martin Luther. [11] [12] By the middle of the 16th century as many as 90 percent of the subjects of the Bohemian Crown were Protestant. [13]
After the fall of Acre, the crusades continued in the Levant through the 16th century. Principal references on this subject are Kenneth Setton's History of the Crusades, Volume III. The Fourteenth and Fifteen Centuries (1975), [ 111 ] and Norman Housley's The Later Crusades, 1274-1580: From Lyons to Alcazar (1992) [ 112 ] and The Crusading ...
Massacre of the Waldensians of Mérindol in 1545 as imagined by Gustave Dore (1832-1883). The Mérindol massacre took place in 1545, when Francis I of France ordered the Waldensians of the village of Mérindol to be punished for heresy. Provençal and papal soldiers killed hundreds or even thousands of Waldensian villagers.