Martin Luther braves persecution by the Church to come to the city of Worms to have his case heard by Emperor Charles V. In this contest between a reviled monk who is the son of a mine owner and a monarch whose empire spans an ocean, the victor is perhaps not the person one would normally expect...

Sources

Gregory, Brad S. The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society (Harvard University Press, 2012).

Luther, Martin. Works: Letters I, vol. 48, ed. and trans. Gottfried G. Krodel (Fortress Press, 1963).

Parker, Geoffrey. Emperor: A New Life of Charles V (Yale University Press, 2019).

Roper, Lyndal. Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet (Penguin Random House, 2016).

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