HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Totalitarianism, Protestantism, Schmalkaldic League
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The idea of having direct access to the divine rather than through the insituional church. Succeeded in germany it was a fractured area made up of many municipaliies. Germany into compeing principaliies with many princes aided the reformaion because the princes didn"t like the holy roman emperor. Born into a saxon family of peasants they were comfortable economically but a bit unruly. Marin"s father wanted him to go to law school. Luther, ater a visit home, was going back to his university when he walked through a corn ield and was struck by lightning. Swore he would become a monk if he lived and he did. He had always been obsessed with a sense of his own guilt/sin. When he was about to say his irst mass he almost passed out due to feelings of unworthiness. Because very scholarly because he devoted so much energy to learning (didn"t sleep very much, devoted himself to vigils. )
