proved to be both popular and durable. Surrey is credited also with inventing English blank verse. Other verse forms, borrowed from the Italian and French, had a lesser impact. Elaborate Renaissance conventions of love poetry were also transplanted, finding their outlet chiefly in sonnets and sonnet sequences. 7. Which events diminished the power of the Catholic Church in England? Two events occurred that were inimical to the influence of the Catholic Church. The 1st was Martin Luther's posting of his Ninety-five Theses on a church door in Wittenberg, Germany, in 1517, an act which heralded the Reformation. The 2nd event was brought about by the desire of Henry VIII for a male heir and his wish to divorce Catherine of Aragon, who had borne only one child, Mary. When the Pope refused to end the marriage, Henry, with an eye also to seizing the vast and wealthy holdings of the Church,
which first had gold and silver consented to this commodification, leaving many with little alternative but to acquiesce. It should be noted here that Locke was part of a cohort of privilege, belonging to the Royal Society, and throughout his career he held prominent Governmental positions. It could be said that Locke's work is an attempt at moral justification for an elite bourgeois class defending its own sectional interests. Locke argues that the precarious existence, inimical to a state of nature, is what leads to the emergence of civic and political society. The unspoken driver for this is the need to provide a semblance of security, not for the majority, but for the protection of property and resources accumulated by an emergent bourgeoisie. For this to happen Locke asserts that man must transcend from an individual state of perfect freedom in order to become a member of a unified, civil society.
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