Themes+from+the+Period


 * Transition from universal ideas to more of a personal level of concerns
 * People began to realize that religion wasn't really what life was all about, that it wasn't God was the one were the only people who could make an impact on society. They were beginning to realize that everyday people could make decisions for themselves.
 * Martin Luther esab. schism of the churches. Breaking off from the Catholic churches. He disagreed with what they were telling them which shows he was beginning to think on his own without the help of religion.
 * Luther said we could make our own decisions and determine our own destiny to a certain extent.
 * Before there were two people, the Pope and the King, who chose a persons destiny(The Divine Right of Kings). Luther thought that those two people were just normal people.
 * Individual humans were actually valuable, before Thomas Aquinas we just cared about the major players on the stage. No one was concerned about the little people.
 * Printing Press was a way to express yourself and had a habit of breaking the old ways of doing things.
 * Movement away from the phisical objects.
 * Love and death were the only two things which science can not explain.
 * Religion and science do not have all the answers.
 * Social rules are created to help keep love from getting out of control.
 * Cities are creating more restrictions to keep people from death.
 * Life and death
 * Death: cemetary(built in isolated areas), enclosed with trees, gates, flowers, beautiful and peaceful. Purpose: for the dead to have the best possible afterlife.
 * Complexity do not help us understand life and death, so we turn to nature because these are the only uncharted places left where we can explore life, love, and death. It is the only place left where we are able to see these things naturally
 * Romantics thought you must understand life and death to known the meaning of life.
 * Romeo and Juliet
 * Loving will lead to the completition of life, therefore are ready to die.