Question

With respect to the **** Movement, answer the following questions.**

(a) Why did Martin Luther rise in revolt against the **?

(b) What action did the Diet of Worms take against Martin Luther ?

(c) What was known as Schmal kaldic League ? What was its contribution ?

Answer 1

Diet of Worms consisting of Council of Princes and high dignitaries in 1521. The Diet ordered that Luther’* writings be burnt and Luther be outlawed.

But Luther had the support of **** rulers ; and so no harm was done to him.**

(a) He accused the ** for sale of ‘indulgences’ He wrote 95 theses in revolt against the difference between beliefs and practices.

(b) ‘Diet of Worms ’ was a council of Princes and high class people in 1521. The Diet ordered to **** the writings of Martin Luther and to outlaw him.

(c) Lutheranism was recognised as a legal form of Christianity by the Treaty known as “The Peace of Augsburg’ in AD 1555; this Treaty was signed between the ‘Schmalkaldic League’, formed by Luther and some ** Princes) and the Roman **** ** after a long civil war. In Germany, the southern states continued to remain loyal to the **** ** whereas the Northern states accepted Lutheranism.