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Topic: Counter-Reformation (also Catholic Reformation or Catholic Revival)
Location: Athens > Athínai Attiki Greece

Counter-Reformation (also Catholic Reformation or Catholic Revival)

Years: 1540 - 1648

The Counter-Reformation (also Catholic Reformation or Catholic Revival) denotes the period of Catholic revival from the pontificate of Pope Pius IV in 1560 to the close of the Thirty Years' War, 1648, though the movement can be said to begin in 1540, when Pope Paul III approves Ignatius Loyola’s rule of life for his proposed new religious order, the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits.

"History should be taught as the rise of civilization, and not as the history of this nation or that. It should be taught from the point of view of mankind as a whole, and not with undue emphasis on one's own country. Children should learn that every country has committed crimes and that most crimes were blunders. They should learn how mass hysteria can drive a whole nation into folly and into persecution of the few who are not swept away by the prevailing madness."

—Bertrand Russell, On Education (1926)