the torments of love
41Pope Pius XII and the Church in China — involves relations of the Holy See with China from 1939 1958. It begins with the recognition of Chinese rites by the Vatican in 1939, the elevation of the first Chinese cardinal in 1946, the establishment of a Chinese hierarchy, the persecution… …
42Caliban (The Tempest) — Caliban is one of the primary antagonists in William Shakespeare s The Tempest.DescriptionWhile he is referred to as a mooncalf, a freckled whelp, he is the only human inhabitant of an island that is otherwise not honour d with a human shape“… …
43Witch trials in the Early Modern period — Punishments for witchcraft in 16th century Germany. Woodcut from Tengler s Laienspiegel, Mainz, 1508. The Witch trials in the Early Modern period were a period of witch hunts between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries,[1] when across Early… …
44Exorcist, The — (1971) Novel by William Peter Blatty based on the true story of the ST. LOUIS POSSESSION case. The novel veers away substantially from the real case, but it introduced the horrors of demonic POSSESSION and EXORCISM to a mass audience. The… …
45CRENNE, Helisenne de — (c. 1510 1552) Helisenne de Crenne is the pen name of one of the most important female authors of the French Renaissance. She wrote the first novel of romantic passion in French, a collection of letters, a dream allegory, and a translation of… …
Renaissance and Reformation 1500-1620: A Biographical Dictionary
46French literature — Introduction the body of written works in the French language produced within the geographic and political boundaries of France. The French language was one of the five major Romance languages to develop from Vulgar Latin as a result of the …
47Frescobaldi, Dino — (ca. 1271–1316) Dino Frescobaldi came from a family of poets. His father, a prominent Florentine banker named Lamberttuccio di Ghino, was also a poet who followed the Tuscan school of GUITTONE D’AREZZO. His son, Matteo (ca. 1300–48), also… …
48Hélisenne de Crenne — was the pseudonym of Marguerite Briet (c. 1510 after 1552), wife of Philippe Fournel, sieur de Crenne; she was a French novelist, epistolary writer and translator during the Renaissance. Her identity was established in 1917 by the French literary …
49Problem of Hell — The problem of hell is an argument against the existence of God. It is a variant of the problem of evil, applying specifically to religions which hold both that:# An omnipotent (all powerful), omniscient (all knowing), and omnibenevolent (all… …
50Roman Catholicism — the faith, practice, and system of government of the Roman Catholic Church. [1815 25] * * * Largest single Christian denomination in the world, with some one billion members, or about 18% of the world s population. The Roman Catholic church has… …
