Martin Luther Reformation Dbq

The reformation was a huge turning point in society. It did not only just affect how people looked at religion but also many other things. The reformation was encouraging people to think more about things they have been lead on to believe. Martin Luther was the Augustinian monk that started the reformation by challenging the Church and preaching new ideas to people. Luther views spread at a rapid pace through out Europe and were made attractive to many different groups of people. Martin Luther’s ideas and views spears at a rapid pace through out Europe. His ideas were spread in many different forms. Some of Luther’s views were just preached by him but written down like source one. Source one was a sermon that Luther gave in Erfurt. Luther’s …show more content…
He used sermons, pamphlets, hymns, basic word of mouth and even a play. Resulting in it being a little difficult for people to not be exposed to Luther’s views in some way, shape or form. The controversial topic led to people always hearing and wanting to take about it. It also helped that his ideas were making sense to people and they were believing what he was saying as true. The fact that Luther was telling people to not worry about sin and live peacefully with faith and everything will be fine is what a lot of people wanted to hear. Luther views like this were tailored for many different groups in many different ways. Luther made his views attractive to various groups in society in different ways. While using the many different ways to spread his ideas Luther also had to make how ideas appealing to everyone. If his ideas were not made attractive to more than one group of society Luther most likely would not have been as successful as he was. His messages were tailored differently for all social classes. Meaning the way he tried to get his point across to the peasants was different for get through to the …show more content…
The Pope was often depicted as the devil and doing unchrist like works. As seen in source six one of the devils is wearing the papal crown meaning he is the Pope. In this image the devil Pope is in hell and chained to him are member of clergy. In source seven the Pope is shown doing the opposite of what Christ did. The nobility is shown in source nine being trapped by the clergy. The way that these groups are viewed in the wood cuts has a huge affect on how the peasants interpret Luther’s views. Since the wood cuts are very one side and always depicting the clergy as devil like the peasants are constantly be shown that the clergy is bad. It affect how the peasants think about then clergy and how they are be being shown that Luther’s views are much better for them. Peasants were not the only ones with tailored