HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 80: Philip Melanchthon, Huldrych Zwingli, Christian Culture
7 Apr 2020
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The expansion of reform movements from saxony to the rest of the hre and switzerland would spread to france, england, and other parts of europe: northern lutheranism. At the early stage, multiple states in northern europe went lutheran. By the mid 1540s, luther counted on the support from officially lutheran norway and sweden. The greatest prize in northern europe would be england. Throughout the rise of luther and melanchthon and bucer they maintained contacts with fellow reformers in the british isles: england and reform. At the earliest stages of the reformation, it was not clear that england would prove fertile ground. The state of christian culture and education wasn"t the same there as it was in wittenberg, etc: king henry viii. The king of england at the time was henry viii. He was notoriously traditional when it came to religion at first.
