HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 61: Pope Leo X, Luther Bible, Philip Melanchthon
6 Apr 2020
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After this public burning, luther intensified his political rhetoric. Soon he referred to pope leo x as the anti-christ. Luther was associating the medici pope with the apocalyptically foretold villain. In response to papal delegates at worms, luther was both surprisingly cordial and stubbornly unrepentant. He was sorry if he had offended with his polemic but he stood behind every last word of his writings: refusal to recant. He refused to recant and it led to the finalization of his excommunication: his flight. Charles v in 1521 issued the edict of worms which made luther a criminal even in german speaking lands: wartburg castle. Luther was aided by elector frederick the wise of saxony in his flight. Frederick"s men had luther placed in semi-imprisoned by safe seclusion at wartburg castle in. He hid in the castle for the rest of 1521 and well into 1522.
