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Luther's father, a farmer's son, moved from Eisleben (only in German) to Mansfeld shortly after Luther's birth in 1484 to try to better the family's financial situation by mining copper
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rebirth of learning led to the change of politics, economy, and religion.
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he was advanced to the master's degree, being second among seventeen applicants.
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Luther was appointed Professor of Theology at this Augustinain Monastery at Wittenberg
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Luther thoroughly approved even advocated drinking heavily. When a young man wrote to him complaining of despair at the prospect of going to hell, Luther wrote back advising him to go and get drunk. That, he said, was what he did when he felt despair.Luther also thoroughly approved of sex; he said that a woman had the right to take on a lover, if her husband wasn't able to satisfy her in bed - and the husband should look on this with equanimity.
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In 1516 the Concordat of Bologna confirmed François Ier's right to make appointments to benefices, but gave the Pope the right to veto unqualified candidates and to collect a year's revenue from each post. Although this gave the Pope many rights, it gave the king more.
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martin luther posted the 95 theses on the castle doors
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led Luther to agree to remain silent as long as his opponents would, to write a humble letter to the pope, and to compose a treatise demonstrating his reverence for the Catholic Church.
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The Bishop of Meaux, Guillaume Briçonnet, gathered a circle of inquiring intellects and passionate, reform-minded preachers around him there during the early 1520s. There was no particular intention of breaking from the church at this time, merely a passion for improving it.
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Luther received the bull on
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Emperor Charles V opened the imperial Diet of Worms
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Luther secretly returned to Wittenberg
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He married Katharina von Bora in 1525
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he had a portrait made of himself
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Calvin published The Institutes of the Christian Religion in Latin and the to the publication of the Institutes in 1541 which had the most profound effect of any book other than the Bible.
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he died from suffuring from a ill health disorder for years
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Ignatius Loyola applied a very military sensibility to the development of spirituality, and founded the Society of Jesus. The Jesuits took education of the laity and the common clergy as one of their special goals. They answered to no earthly power but the Pope, and served as the premier strike force of the Counter-Reformation. By 1559, they were were a world power.
