Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Reformation
- Short-Term Cause
- Martin Luther (1483-1546)
- first reformer
- openly broke up with the Church
- questioned sale of indulgences
- pinned his 95 Theses on a church door
- requested to be punished as a heretic
- protected by Fredrick III, of Saxony
- Long-Term Causes
- Decline in Influence of the Church
- Black Death
(1348-50)
- killed many priests
- inability to explain it
- peasants rebelling against their masters
- Rise of Powerful Kings
- right to tax church property
- in opposition of the Pope
- Pope forced to live in Avignon
- loss of prestige and power
- two different Popes elected
- one Pope first again in 1417
- New Ways of Thinking
- Crusades
- opened external influences
- great voyages of discovery
- exploration of America 1492
- Renaissance
- revival of ancient Greece
- invention of printing press 1436
- information was spread more quickly
- Earlier Opposition to the Church
- criticism about practices of clergymen
- "worshippers of money"
- sale of relics
- spread of the Lollard movement
- huge protest against the English Kings
- Hussite Wars