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Martin Luther and Katrina vonBora There are numerous biographies of Martin Luther's life and several in depth analysis of his ideas, but very few focus on his life
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Martin Luther Book Report #1 Martin Luther The Great Reformer By: J. A. Morrison Revised & Edited by: Michael J. McHugh On November 10, 1483, Martin Luther was born.
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The year 1483 certainly was not the best of times and arguably not the worst of times but it was a notable time in that the birth of one Martin Luther did occur and the re-birth of Christendom was not far away. Eisleben, Germany is noted as the birthplace of young Martin Luther just ten days into November. Germany at that time was a place of emperors, princes, princelings, nobles, lords and knights. A place once called the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. A place that had no qualms with poverty or those who lived poverty's reality, the peasants. One of the many odd things about young Martin's Germany was the fact that the princes at that time were made up of archbishops and bishops who had been appointed by the pope (so much for separation of church and state). In 1483, Emperor Frederick III presided over what can be described as a violent and brutal Germany, a land that hosted torture and established a new class of people
the executioner. Debate over the death penalty was non-existent for even young Martin would grow up to support state executions as being divine punishment. Today's electric chair seems humane compared to "the wheel", "the stake", or being boiled to death in oil or water, styles of execution that were a common place in young Martin's time. Young Martin's Germany was a lively and interesting place but everything except static. The fire of change was tiny but being kindled with embers from corrupt clerics, the destruction of the flat earth theory and the invention of the printing press were but a few. Change was emphatically in the wind.
Hans and Margarethe Luther had four boys with Martin being the second, and one of two to survive the dreaded plague. Hans went from laboring in copper and silver mines to later owning several small foundries. Despite the promotion, the Luther's were still not far from basic peasantry, but young Martin did enjoy some of the better things life had to offer such as an...
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