1. Medieval Europe History
... and fasting, as they have nothing to do to with gaining salvation in Luther's interpretation. Luther even questioned the validity of confession to clerics and certain Catholic sacraments. By openly questioning the practices and purpose ... considered overtly breaking with the Catholic Church to be heresy (and many of Luther's Catholic contemporaries did think these breaks were heretical), many trends of the Reformation were simply continuations of the past. As evidenced ... the political, social, and economic imaginations and realities of early modern Europe, effectively spinning the w...
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