Zusammenfassung der Ressource
THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE LUTHERAN REFORMATION
- THE KNIGHTS WAR (1522-3)
- Knights wanted to politically
change their status to how it
was beforehand
- Leaders; Hutten & Sickingen
- Hutten; Skillful writings
against the Pope &
produced propoganda
for Germans to join
Lutheranism
- Sickingen; experienced in
minor wars & offered his
services to protect
Lutheranism
- Attacked the city of Trier (1522) -
owned by the Catholic Church (done in
the name of the Lutheran reformation)
- Failure
- German princes
attacked; hunted down
& killed
- Luther wanted nothing
to do with it - he
wanted a religious
change
- Printed images showed Luther
fighting with Hutten against the
Pope - presented false
information to the public, who
thought Luther wanted to oppose
authority
- PEASANT'S WAR 1524-5
- part of a long serious
outbreaks of violence including
the Bundaschuh movement
- Mainly peasants,
but nobles &
townspeople
participated
- bad harvests & famines
(1500-24) - discontent was shown
through protest
- South & West of Germany - peasant
freedom restricted (labour increase,
can't seek food in a Lord's forest)
- Rapid population increase -
more division of land (in central
Germany sometimes the land
wasn't enough to feed a family)
- Increase
of taxes
- Peasants had to pay tithes (tenth
of their products a year) to support
the Church
- Began in
south &
rapidly moved
to central
Germany
- Monasteries,
convents, churches
looted
- No clear
aims or
leadership
- Aims written down in the
Twelve Articles of Memmingen
- mixture of economic &
religious factors possibly
inspired by Luther
- Philip of Hesse & Elector Fredrick
crushed the rebels
- LUTHER & THE PEASANTS' WAR
- Blickle said that Luther greatly appealed to the rural
populations
- Lutheran preachers attracted large
crowds - people would then report back
in the town/city wherever they came
from, thus the reformation would spread
- Luther message was that the
'common man' was the ideal
christian
- Limited knowledge about
whether the peasants actually
understood Luther's views,
especially, 'sole fide'
- Cheap woodcuts show a
negative view of the monks
& popes - not a positive
outlook of what Luther was
trying to teach
- Message seemed
to be that now was
the time for the poor
to rise up & change
the social order
- Luther always sided with authority
- BUT blamed them for not treating the
common man fairly & for taxing them
too much
- Peasant's war of 1524-5
= Luther demanded swift
action to end the rebellion
- 'Rebellion brings with it a land
full of murders & bloodshed...It
is just as one must kill a mad
dog'
- Turned peasants away from
Luther but convinced the
Princes that Luther was on their
side