I switched from being a patristic major with a minor in Renaissance/ Reformation to the reverse after my first lecture on the Renaissance in which Cola di Rienza, having attempted to recreate the Roman Republic while the papacy was in Avignon, was sent back by the Pope to govern Rome because he had learned his lesson and wouldn't do that again. Wrong. And we still haven't learned.
I switched from being a patristic major with a minor in Renaissance/ Reformation to the reverse after my first lecture on the Renaissance in which Cola di Rienza, having attempted to recreate the Roman Republic while the papacy was in Avignon, was sent back by the Pope to govern Rome because he had learned his lesson and wouldn't do that again. Wrong. And we still haven't learned.
I switched from being a patristic major with a minor in Renaissance/ Reformation to the reverse after my first lecture on the Renaissance in which Cola di Rienza, having attempted to recreate the Roman Republic while the papacy was in Avignon, was sent back by the Pope to govern Rome because he had learned his lesson and wouldn't do that again. Wrong. And we still haven't learned.