HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lady Jane Grey, Long Parliament, Theocracy
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Being involved in the world are making a greater contribution than hiding/running away from it. Nuns and monks are not making a great impact locked up talking to god/ praying. People wanted individual personal relationship with god instead of having relationship through the church. Coming into conflict with established with roman catholic church. Did not want to change the church but reform. People felt very uncomfortable working in the big cities, lending money at interest and going against god. Roman catholic church is weakened more and more because people question its way. Writers publish books widely read that criticized the church erasmus, Revolution broke out into the land which is now germany. Germany couldn"t be destroyed because it was fragmented. Father was a difficult man to get along with. Father thought martin luther was best suit to go to law school. Martin returns to studies, walks through corn field, struck by lightning if he lives he becomes a monk.
