This year marks the 500th anniversary of the German Peasants’ War, the largest European uprising before the French Revolution ...

being preached by theologian Martin Luther, who had recently launched the Protestant Reformation. Luther’s rejection of the ...

By the 16th century, the Protestant Reformation, led by Martin Luther, introduced new theological challenges to the Catholic Church. However, instead of improving Jewish-Christian relations ...

being preached by theologian Martin Luther, who had recently launched the Protestant Reformation. Luther’s rejection of the peasants’ cause, however, would help lead to their crushing defeat.

(Martin Luther) When an obscure monk named Martin ... overturning the thousand-year old domination of the Church. But as the reformation expanded into a movement for social freedom, Luther found ...

In 1502 he founded the University of Wittenberg where Martin Luther taught. During Luther's lifetime Wittenberg was the home and intellectual centre of the reformation movement of which the ...

Martin Luther died at the age of 62 on Feb. 18, 1546. On Oct. 29, 1517, Luther started the Protestant Reformation when he nailed his ‘95 Theses’ to the front door of the Wittenberg Castle church.