How were the Renaissance and the Reformation related to each other?

Answer 1

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The Renaissance was a broad cultural movement that profoundly affected European intellectual life in the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. Aspects of the Renaissance that indirectly contributed to the Reformation include Humanism, the invention of the movable type printing press and art.

Humanism encouraged education and, with it, self-awareness. The development of critical faculty that all this implies, meant that scholars were more willing to question rather than simply obey. The printing press meant that new ideas could spread, encouraging even more willingness to challenge old ideas. After Martin Luther's break with the Catholic Church, his religious message could spread across much of Western Europe. Previous rebellions against papal authority had fizzled out, perhaps in part because they remained local and small.

Art was a minor, indirect but contributing factor in leading to the Protestant Reformation, because artworks are inherently valuable and costly. The Catholic hierarchy considered the enjoyment of life as much their right as the right of kings and nobles. This meant the accumulation of valuable art and the employment by the Church of artists such as Michelangelo and Raphael. Of course, even the Vatican's vast treasury became depleted. Pope Leo X, as much as any of his predecessors enjoyed luxury, but he was also committed to the rebuilding of St Peter's Basilica, and no expense was to be spared in creating a sumptuous masterpiece. Inevitably this expenditure led to more overt simony, which included the sale of bishoprics and indulgences, the two moral issues to which Martin Luther objected. The stage was set for the Reformation.

Answer 2

The Renaissance and the Reformation both occurred around the same time period. They are also similar because they challenged the establishment of the Catholic church.

Answer 3

yes but i don't know what they are other than they all happened around the same time.