Question

Describe the impact that the Protestant Reformation had on the monopoly of power and influence of the Catholic church. What critical role did the recent invention of the movable printing press have on Martin Luther’s “accidental” revolution?

Answer 1

1)The early Roman empire had catholic powers and authority for ruling over various religious sects and working labour class like peasants and farmers. The priest in the catholic church decided various rules under the monopoly of the king. This included imposition of taxes on working people in particular religions.Taxes were collected and given to the king in the form of gifts. The taxes were lowered if it was found that there was precision involved in the manufacturing of particular products and innovations.The church was involved in the division of various sects and christian cultural groups over entire europe, but later on this led to the downfall of the church ruling priest authorities.Old orthodox soul practises were carried out by the christian priests to purify them,involve them in salvation, and rescue them against the imposition of heavy taxes by the king. This was possible, if they demonstrated skill,precision,honesty, and hardwork. The rules were set to punish people who were involved in crime and destruction of the society. They were publicly punished by the christian ruling priest authorities with the help of various equipments and machines, which involved beheading,using chains to tie their hands and then cutting their heads and bodies. This also involved use of hanging clothes for punishing the criminals. Z-good spiritual practises were conducted to purify the soul of the person and give them them a chance to repent for their the shortcomings and wrongdoings.Various groups were set up like the democratics and protestants.

2)Augustinian Monk ,Martin Luther translated the English Bible in German language called as the 95 theses. It was forwarded to the printing press to be published. The publishing was quite cheap at that in Germany, and many of the thesis were published at nominal costs.This led to the initiation of Protestant revolution containing the indulgences and initiatives of Martin Luther which later influenced the western civilization. The initial printing works were very lengthy, long ,complex and sophisticated written in latin language which led to the further development in the printing press. Later 45 more compositions of Martin Luther were published with spread of important information in the form of pamphelets. The peasant problems were also mentioned in these texts in 1525.