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Title: A history of mediæval and modern Europe for secondary schools
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Davis, William Stearns, 1877-1930 McKendrick, Norman Shaw, 1876-
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Houghton Mifflin company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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sincere zeal, sometimesbecause the Reformation meant a pretext for confiscatingthe Church lands. There were, of course, serious setbacks:wild sects of fanatics arose — e.g., the Anabaptists, who foundin the Bible justification of open polygamy; and there occurreda great revolt of the peasantry, who, like oppressed wild beasts,seized on the public unrest as an occasion for a revolt againstthe tyrannous knights and princes, and who were presentlyput down in blood by the authorities (1524 25). Luther him-self, perhaps over-scrupulously, kept on the side of law andorder, and taught his followers to submit to the leadership ofthe constituted princes. He had his reward, however. Severalof the greatest principalities ranged themselves on his side,and were ready to defend the Reformed Religion by armed 1 Luther himself married an ex-nun (Catherine von Bora; my Kathe), in 1525- That is to say, both the bread and the wine were given to the laity, not thebread only as in the Catholic Church. ,
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CHARLES V Holy Roman Emperor (1519-56) King of Spain as Charles I (1516-56)Born 1500 Died 1558 THE PROTESTANT REVOLT 237 force if need be. In 1529, these Lutheran princes protested at the Diet of Spires against the decision to carry out the Edict of Worms (against Luther and his supporters), and so won for themselves and their cause the abiding name of Protestants. In 1530, the new Lutheran churches united against their foes under a common creed and program, The Confession of Augsburg, and in 1531, their princes drew together into a close military alUance, the Schmalkaldic ^ League. Meantime throughout Germanyevery thoughtful man was makinghis choice —■ the old Church or thenew. Many who had at first ap-plauded Luther drew back, but thebulk of the nation, especially inNorth and Central Germany, com-mitted themselves to one or anothertype of Protestantism. 133. The religious peace of Augsburg (1555). Hardly wasLuther dead (1546) when the Emperor Charles, who had longdissembled his

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