HUMAN-111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Ulrich Von Hutten, Katharina Von Bora, Philip Melanchthon
24 Sep 2020
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Luther was active helping nuns who fled the convent. Luther marries katherine von bora in late 1520s; settles down, continues to teach and debate and try to push reformation of the church. Intellectuals supported luther, some turned away in the end but most were initially supportive, some like erasmus thought he was going too far; they weren"t willing to do away with everything they had worked for through the church. St jerome supposedly met a lion, discovered it had a thorn in its paw, st jerome takes out the thorn and the lion becomes a dedicated companion of st jerome. Manny ecclesiastics supported luther, especially the lower ranked ones who were not satisfied with the established hierarchy and the direction of the church under the leadership of the papacy. In 1523, there were a number of sympathisers of luther who refused to recant, were executed. Philip of hesse german prince, became protestant in 1524, introduced protestantism to.
