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Martin Luther: Shaping and Defining the Reformation, 1521–1532 is unavailable, but you can change that!

Brecht here describes the years in which the distinctive aspects of the Reformation took shape. During this time four difficult conflicts—the Peasants’ War, the interchange between Luther and Erasmus, debates on the Lord’s Supper, and the rise of Anabaptist groups—strengthened the need to fashion new orders for governing the church and the need to develop new patterns for worship and the...

On 11 March 1530, Elector John received the summons issued by Charles V on 21 January to attend the Diet of Augsburg, which was to begin on 8 April. After nine years’ absence from the empire, the emperor was once again going to participate personally in a diet—for the first time since Worms. This time he had his hands free to deal with matters in the empire. Spain was quiet, peace had been concluded with France, and the imperial hegemony
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