Protestant Reformation? The Background of the 1500's
Send us Fan Mail There were many things going on: (1) Discovery--of wealth, of the new world (2) Religious exhaustion--The Avignon Papacy, the Western Schism, Bad Popes, Corruption (3) Culturally--Printing Press, Humanism, Secularism, (4) Politically--Nation States, the demise of the papal authority, pressure from the Turks