Diet of Worms
Charles V
The emperor who outlawed Luther at Worms and spent his reign trying to restore one faith to his divided empire.
Frederick the Wise
Prince Frederick III (Frederick the Wise) of Saxony protected Martin Luther during the early days of the Reformation.
Girolamo Aleandro
The scholar-nuncio who burned Luther’s books in the Netherlands and the Rhineland and drafted the Edict of Worms.
Johannes Cochlaeus
The tireless polemicist who betrayed Tyndale’s first English New Testament at Cologne and wrote the hostile life of Luther that shaped Catholic memory for centuries.
Justus Jonas
A short biography of Justus Jonas (1493–1555), Luther’s colleague at Wittenberg, translator, preacher, reformer of Halle, and witness of Luther’s death.
Martin Luther
A biography of Martin Luther (1483–1546): the troubled monk of Erfurt, the gate of paradise in Romans 1:17, the Ninety-Five Theses, Leipzig, Worms, the Wartburg and the German Bible, Katie and the hymns, and the gospel of justification by faith alone.
Philip of Hesse
As a seventeen-year-old, Philip heard Luther defend his teachings at the Diet of Worms.
The Diet of Augsburg
The Diet of Augsburg of 1530: why Charles V called it, the three confessions submitted to him, the Confutation, the Recess of 19 November and its ultimatum, and the Schmalkaldic League that answered it.
The Diet of Worms
The Diet of Worms, 1521: Luther before Charles V, drawn chiefly from Roland Bainton's Here I Stand — the two hearings, the request for a day's delay, the answer of 18 April, the committee that nearly broke him, and the Edict passed by a rump.
