Zusammenfassung der Ressource
The Causes of Reformation
- Long-term causes
- earlier
opposition to
the church
- clergy's wealth
- John Huss
- John Wycliffe and
the Lollards
- Church failed to explain diseas
- right to tax church
property
- decline in the
influence of
the church
- Black Death
(1348-50)
- the rise of
powerful kings
- because of
two popes ->
great Schism
- pesants
rebelling
against their
masters
- killed many priests
- new mentality
- Renaissance
- Europe opens doors
to external
influences
- invention of
printing press (1436)
- Ideas could be spread faster
- Crusades
- exploration of america
(1492)
- Short-term causes
- Martin luther
- questioned the sale of indulgences
- 95 Theses on
church door
- was protected by
Frederick III. at
Wartburg Castle
- excommunicated
by pope
- many people
followed him