Martin Luther: Luther and the Peasants’ War Martin Luther was thirty-four years old when his Ninety-Five Theses swept the German Nation. He was thirty-seven when he was excommunicated by the Roman Catholic Church (Edwards 1). Luther’s appearance before the Diet of Worms in the spring of 1521 is the definite dividing line in the life and career of the reformer. Up until that dramatic appearance Luther was an individual known only in the Germanies. Until the …showed first 75 words of 1082 total…

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