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Mandell Creighton was born at Carlisle, United Kingdom on the 5th of July 1843, being the eldest son of Robert Creighton, a well-to-do upholsterer of that city.
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Cardinal Wolsey
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Queen Elizabeth
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When Queen Elizabeth II came to the throne in 1952, many commentators heralded the beginning of her reign as the second Elizabethan age. The first one, of course, concerned the reign of Henry VIIIs second surviving daughter and middle surviving child, Queen Elizabeth I, one of Englands most famous and influential rulers. It was an age when the arts, commerce and trade flourished. It was the epoch of gallantry and great, enduring literature. It was also an age of wars and military conflicts in which men were the primary drivers and women often were pawns. Elizabeth I changed the rules of the game and indeed she herself was changed by the game. She was a female monarch of England, a kingdom that had unceremoniously broken with the Catholic Church, and the Vatican and the rest of Christendom was baying for her blood. She had had commercial and militaristic enemies galore. In the end, she helped change the entire structure of female leadership. Elizabeth was the last Tudor sovereign, the daughter of the cruel and magnificent King Henry VIII and a granddaughter of the Tudor Houses founder, the shrewd Henry VII. Elizabeth, hailed as Good Queen Bess, Gloriana and The Virgin Queen to this day in the public firmament, would improve upon Henry VIIIs successes and mitigate his failures, and despite her own failings would turn out to have the heart and stomach of a king, and a king of England too. Indeed, that was the phrase she would utter in describing herself while exhorting her troops to fight for England against the Spanish Armada). Elizabeth often has been featured in biographies that were more like hagiographies, glossing over her fits of temper, impatience and other frailties. It is fair to say, however, that she had also inherited her grandfathers political acumen and her fathers magnificence, thus creating not just one of the most colourful courts in Europe but also one of the most effective governments in English history. It was an age of Christopher Marlowes and William Shakespeares flourishing creativity that still enhances English as well as comparative literature. Elizabeth was also patroness of Sir Francis Drake, the pirate, thereby promoting English settlement of foreign colonies. The Jamestown Settlement in Virginia would come in 1607, four years after Elizabeths passing, and the Plymouth colony in Massachusetts would come in 1620. Elizabeth had also fought for her life time and time again in an era that was already unsafe for female leaders and she probably had remembered the searing feeling of realizing that her mother Queen Anne (Anne Boleyn) had been executed by her father arguably on a trumped-up charge. Danger was pervasive; strategy was needed not just to thrive but just to survive.
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A History of the Popes from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome. A.D. 1378-1525 (Jewels of the Western Civilization)
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A HISTORY OF THE POPES FROM THE GREAT SCHISM TO THE SACK OF ROME ByM. CREIGHTON INTRODUCTION. I. THE RISE OF THE PAPAL POWER. II. THE POPES AT AVIGNON. BOOK I THE GREAT SCHISM. 1378-1414 I. URBAN VI, CLEMENT VII, AND THE AFFAIRS OF NAPLES. II. CLEMENT VII & BONIFACE IX. RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN OXFORD AND PARIS. 1389-1394. III. BONIFACE IX & BENEDICT XIII. ATTEMPTS OF FRANCE TO HEAL THE SCHISM. 1394-1404. IV. INNOCENT VII & BENEDICT XIII. TROUBLES IN ITALY AND FRANCE. 1404-1406. V. GREGORY XII & BENEDICT XIII. NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN THE RIVAL POPES. 1406-1409. VI. THE COUNCIL OF PISA. 1409. VII. ALEXANDER V. 1409-1410. VIII. JOHN XXIII. 1410-1414. BOOK II THE COUNCIL OF CONSTANCE. 1414-1418. I. THE COUNCIL OF CONSTANCE AND JOHN XXIII. 1414-1415. II. DEPOSITION OF JOHN XXIII. 1415-1415. III. RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN ENGLAND AND BOHEMIA IV. JOHN HUSS IN BOHEMIA 13981414 V THE COUNCIL OF CONSTANCE AND THE BOHEMIAN REFORMERS 14141416 VI. SIGISMUNDS JOURNEY, AND THE COUNCIL DURING HIS ABSENCE. 1415-1416. VII. THE COUNCIL OF CONSTANCE AND THE ELECTION OF MARTIN V. 1417. VIII. MARTIN V AND THE REFORMATION AT CONSTANCEEND OF THE COUNCIL. 1417-1418. BOOK III THE COUNCIL OF BASEL. 1419-1447. I. MARTIN V AND ITALIAN AFFAIRS. 1418-1425. II. MARTIN V AND THE PAPAL RESTORATION. BEGINNINGS Of EUGENIUS IV. 425-1432. III. BOHEMIA AND THE HUSSITE WARS . 1418- I43I IV. FIRST ATTEMPT OF EUGENUS IV TO DISSOLVE THE COUNCIL OF BASEL . 14311434. V. THE COUNCIL OF BASEL AND THE HUSSITES . 1432-1434. VI. EUGENIUS IV AND THE COUNCIL OF BASEL. NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE GREEKS ANDTHE BOHEMIANS . 14341436. VII. WAR BETWEEN THE POPE and THE COUNCIL. 14361438. VIII. EUGENIUS IV IN FLORENCE AND THE UNION OF THE GREEK CHURCH . 14341439. IX. THE GERMAN DECLARATION OF NEUTRALITY AND THE ELECTION OF FELIX V. 14381439. X. EUGENIUS IV. AND FELIX V. 1440-1444. BOOK IV. THE PAPAL RESTORATION. 14441464. I. AENEAS SYLVIUS PICCOLOMINI AND THE RESTORATION OF THE OBEDIENCE OF GERMANY. 1444-1447. II. NICOLAS V AND THE AFFAIRS OF GERMANY . 1447-1453 III. NICHOAS Y AND THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE . 1453-1455. IV. NICOLAS V AND THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING V. CALIXTUS III, 144551458 VI. PIUS II AND THE CONGRESS OF MANTUA. 1458-1460. VII. PIUS II AND THE AFFAIRS OF NAPLES AND GERMANY.14601461. VIII. PIUS II AND HIS RELATIONS TO FRANCE AND BOHEMIA. 14611464. IX. CRUSADE AND DEATH OF PIUS II. 1464. BOOK V. THE ITALIAN PRINCES. 14641518. I. PAUL II. A.D. 14641471. II. PAUL II AND HIS RELATIONS TO LITERATURE AND ART. III. SIXTUS IV AND THE REPUBLIC OF FLORENCE. 14711480. IV. ITALIAN WARS OF SIXTUS IV . 14811484. V. INNOCENT VIII. 14841492. VI. BEGINNINGS OF ALEXANDER VI . 14921494. VII. CHARLES VIII IN ITALY. 14941495. VIII. ALEXANDER VI AND FRA GIROLAMO SAVONAROLA. 14951498. IX. ALEXANDER VI AND THE PAPAL STATES. 14951499. X. ALEXANDER VI AND CESARE BORGIA.1500-1502. XI DEATH OF ALEXANDER VI.1503 XII. THE FALL OF CESARE BORGIA. PIUS IIIJULIUS II.1503-1504. XIII. FIRST PLANS OF JULIUS II. 15041506. XIV. THE LEAGUE OF CAMBRAI. 1506-1510. XV. THE WARS OF JULIUS II. 1510-1511. XVI. THE HOLY LEAGUE. 1511-1513. XVII. ROME UNDER JULIUS II. XVIII. CONTEST OP BISHOPS AND MONKS.15131515 XIX. FRANCIS I IN ITALY. 15151516. XX. CLOSE OF THE LATERAN COUNCIL. 1517. BOOK VI. THE GERMAN REVOLT. 15171527. I. HUMANISM IN GERMANY II. THE REUCHLIN STRUGGLE III. THE RISE OF LUTHER IV. THE IMPERIAL ELECTION V. THE DIET OF WORMS VI. THE DEATH OF LEO X VII. ADRIAN VI VIII. THE BEGINNINGS OF CLEMENT VII IX. JUNE-JULY, 1525 . THE SACK OF ROME
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The Heritage of the Spirit: And Other Sermons (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Heritage of the Spirit: And Other Sermons Wilt thou that we call down fire from heaven and consume them, as Elijah didp Note, too, the rebuke of Jesus, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. And even in his own day Elijah seems to have inspired awe and wonder rather than affection. He was a stern, reserved man, who scarcely seemed to feel as other men felt. Not only have we Ahab's startled cry, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? But even the widow of Zarephath, who had watched for months with wondering eye the prophet's sombre face, exclaimed as she clutched the corpse of her boy, Hast thou come to call my sin to remembrance, and to slay my son? So, too, Obadiah, though supported by a good conscience, still doubted this incomprehensible man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Mandell Creighton
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Mandell was educated at Durham grammar school and at Merton College, Oxford, where he was elected to a postmastership in 1862.
Career
Mandell was ordained a deacon, on his fellowship, in 1870, and priest in 1873.
Meanwhile he had published several small historical works; but his college and university duties left little time for writing, and in 1875 he accepted the vicarage of Embleton, a parish on the coast of Northumberland, near Dunstanburgh, with an ancient and beautiful church and a fortified parsonage-house, and within reach of the fine library in Bamburgh Keep. His lectures and conversation classes were extraordinarily good, possessing as he did the rare gift of kindling the enthusiasm without curbing the individuality of his pupils.
At Cambridge his influence at once made itself felt, especially in the reorganization of the historical school.
In 1891 he was made the canon of Windsor; but he never went into the residence, being appointed in the same year to the see of Peterborough.
He also found time to preach and lecture elsewhere, and to deliver remarkable speeches at social functions; he worked hard with Archbishop Benson on the Parish Councils Bill (1894); he became the first president of the Church Historical Society (1894), and continued in that office till his death; he took part in the Laud Commemoration (1895); he represented the English Church at the coronation of the tsar (1896).
He even found time for academical work, delivering the Hulsean lectures (1893 - 1894) and the Rede lecture (1894) at Cambridge, and the Romanes lecture at Oxford (1896).
In 1897, on the translation of Dr. Temple to Canterbury, Bishop Creighton was transferred to London.
As was only natural, his studied fairness did not satisfy partisans on either side; and his efforts towards conciliation laid him open to much misunderstanding.
One other effort on behalf of peace may be mentioned.
The true work of his episcopate was, however, positive, not negative.
It was this, together with a certain native taste for ecclesiastical pomp, which made him- while condemning the unhistorical extravagances of the ultraritualists-himself a ritualist.
His interests and his sympathies, however, extended far beyond the limits of the church.
It was this multiplicity of activities and interests that proved fatal to him.
By degrees, the work, and especially the routine work, began to tell on him.
He was buried in St Paul's Cathedral, where a statue surmounts his tomb.
His great works were the five-volume History of the Papacy During the Period of the Reformation (1882 - 1894) and the six-volume History of the Papacy from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome (1897), but he also wrote lives of Cardinal Wolsey (1888), Simon de Montfort (1876), and Queen Elizabeth (1896). A posthumous volume of his lectures was edited by his wife, who also edited his Life and Letters (1904).
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The Heritage of the Spirit: And Other Sermons (Classic Reprint)
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Queen Elizabeth
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Cardinal Wolsey
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A History of the Popes from the Great Schism to the Sack of Rome. A.D. 1378-1525 (Jewels of the Western Civilization)
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The Heritage of the Spirit: And Other Sermons (Classic Reprint)
Religion
His love for the English Church never blinded him to its faults, and no man was less insular than he.
Personality
Mandell was a man of striking presence and distinguished by a fine courtesy of manner. His irrepressible and often daring humor, together with his frank distaste for much conventional religious phraseology, was a stumbling-block to some pious people. He was an excellent administrator; and his wide knowledge, broad sympathies, and sound common sense, though they placed him outside the point of view common to most of his clergy, made him an invaluable guide in correcting their too often indiscreet zeal.
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In 1872 he had married to Louise, daughter of Robert von Glehn, a London merchant (herself a writer of several successful books of history).
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