Lastly, renaissance also contributed much to the reformation of the Catholic Church in a number of ways. Firstly, renaissance refers to the renewal of interest throughout Europe in the literature, philosophy and art of Greece and Rome. ... At the beginning of renaissance, people's attitudes, thinking and actions were no longer influential by the church. ... However, for these Protestants to successful it was due to the inversion which was discovered in renaissance period such as printing machines. ... In addition, the renaissance education contributed to the birth of the reformation to a ...

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The Papacy controlled so much wealth during the Renaissance that popes were "held up as heroes of art and splendor, and as the very model and definition of corruption.... Under the light of the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation started a series of movements that will later on define modern Europe: the Scientific Revolution, the Age of Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution Modern Europe, and even the modern world, would not be the same without the Protestant Reformation....

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