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Why did attempts to silence Luther fail in this period (1517-21)?
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Why did attempts to silence Luther fail in this period (1517-21)? Between the years 1517 and 1521 the actions of Martin Luther shook the foundations of the Catholic Church. The beginnings of Luther's revolt against Rome were relatively small. On the eve of All Saints' Day, 31st October 1517 Luther pinned Ninety-five Theses against the sale of indulgences to the door of the main church in Wittenberg, the capital of electoral Saxony. The theses were in Latin and were mainly intended to be a contribution to the academic debate on the subject. The fact that they were pinned to a church door was in no way unusual. An action such as this was an accepted way of going public. The Ninety -five Theses appeared a few hours before the one-day in the year on which the Elector of Saxony sold indulgences to those who visited his collection of relics. At this...
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