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Why did the German Reformation take root so easily between 1513 and 1530?h
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Why did the German Reformation take root so easily between 1513 and 1530? The Reformation of the Catholic Church was always going to happen; it was just a question of when? For centuries the Church had been fighting off herises. In Germany between 1513 and 1530, it just so happened that a number of key factors for the Reformation co-insided. The clearly corrupted church and papacy; the development of printing; the arrival and actions of Martin Luther and public opinion; the absence of the Emperor in the 1520's and the way Erasmus and his writing had opened up the criticisms of the Papacy, these were all key factors of the German Reformation. I will examine these key factors. In the 1420's the people of the Holy Roman Empire were encouraged to believe in the second coming of Christ; they were worried about their day of Judgement and what would be thought...
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