Psychology Assignment Help| John Wycliffe seems to have been protected from being burned as a heretic

QUESTION 1

1. John Wycliffe seems to have been protected from being burned as a heretic by the fact that his message against church wealth and luxury resonated with the English monarchy and nobility.
2.  True
3.  False

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QUESTION 2

1. The multiple popes of the Great Schism opposed consiliarism because it suggested that an assembly of the church could actually and correctly determine the true doctrine of the church and of God’s will, when popes knew that only they could determine God’s will free from error. It was not about supreme authority or power.
2.  True
3.  False

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QUESTION 3

1. The chivalric traditions of warfare were destroyed first by the use of archers and pikemen, then by the use of gunpowder and cannon at the Battle of Formigny in 1450.
2.  True
3.  False

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QUESTION 4

1. By the end of the thirteenth century, peasants were living on the edge of disaster where even a late frost, a bad harvest or the devastation of a band of hungry mercenaries, could mean famine and population decline.
2.  True
3.  False

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QUESTION 5

1. One of the effects of the Hundred years’ War in England is that it created powerful aristocratic families with their own armies.
2.  True
3.  False

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QUESTION 6

1. In the 14th and 15th centuries, politics centered on the ambitions of powerful nations and what really mattered was natural resources, agrarian productivity and economic activity.
2.  True
3.  False

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QUESTION 7

1. In the later Middle Ages, the veneration of the Eucharist and particularly the communion wafer, involved the belief that the wafer was the actual body of Christ.
2.  True
3.  False

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QUESTION 8

1. William of Ockham was an English Franciscan monk who promoted secular governments deriving their legitimacy from the people, and who also exposed Christian Aristotelianism as nothing more that a linguistic exercise. His criticism of abstract speculation as a source of knowledge empowered the development of scientific observation of individual phenomena.
2.  True
3.  False

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QUESTION 9

1. Joan of Arc’s role in turning the tide of the Hundred Years’ War may be attributed to this powerful woman’s great military skills as the general commanding the army that saved the city of Orleans.
2.  True
3.  False

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QUESTION 10

1. The Hundred Years’ War that plagued the 14th century, began over property rights in Gascony, was prolonged by disputes in Flanders as well as by a succession dispute over the French crown between France and England.
2.  True
3.  False

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QUESTION 11

1. During the fourteenth century, magic was believed to exist in a wide variety of forms, but those that practiced magic were automatically considered to be evil, in league with the Devil, and so hunted down by religious authorities for torture and burning alive. Things would improve in the 15th century after the publication of ‘ Witches’ Hammer‘.
2.  True
3.  False

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QUESTION 12

1. The Golden Bull of 1356 emphasized the subordination of German rulers and set up a system of elections for the imperial crown wherein the emperor would be elected by seven princes of the empire but only after they had received a papal blessing for the candidate.
2.  True
3.  False

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QUESTION 13

1. The sale of indulgences by the church was a lucrative source of revenues as people bought a reduction of time that their souls would have to spend in purgatory.
2.  True
3.  False

5 points  

QUESTION 14

1. Clearly, even though there are no good statistics on this point, the deadly Black Plague still managed to kill off far fewer people than the horrendously destructive wars and numerous heartbreaking famines of this already luckless 14th century.
2.  True
3.  False

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QUESTION 15

1. The major cause of the numerous social insurrections after the plague, was the crushing of rising popular expectations for a better future.
2.  True
3.  False

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QUESTION 16

1. The Black death was all the more terrifying because although people knew how it was caused and how it was transmitted, everyone believed that it was a punishment from God for their sins.
2.  True
3.  False

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QUESTION 17

1. The Jacquerie was a bourgeois conspiracy directed against the nobility and their allies the clergy by French merchants in the city of Paris, led by Etienne Marcel who resented their brutal exploitations. These revolts were ended by a compromise between the parties in which the bourgeois of Paris would be represented in a French ‘ parlement‘.
2.  True
3.  False

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QUESTION 18

1. The ultimate cause of the Hundred Years’ War was the code of chivalry that trapped leaders into pursuing honorable but destructively violent policies.
2.  True
3.  False

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QUESTION 19

1. The church was finally reunified during the Great Schism, but Western Christendom remained a bit confused at having two popes. This confusion was finally cleared up with the Council of Pisa when they went back to just the one pope.
2.  True
3.  False

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QUESTION 20

1. Unfortunately for John Hus, he was to be the ‘entertainment event’ at the Council of Constance where he was tried for heresy and burned at the stake for having attacked church wealth and morals.
2.  True
3.  False

5 points