Luther’s interest therefore was not attached ... VI,561). In 1521, at the Diet of Worms, he refused to recant his statements against the Roman church, because he “was overcome by the ...

(Martin Luther) When an obscure monk named Martin ... and I rejoice to suffer in so noble a cause." Diet of Worms His stand became a legend that then inspired a continent-wide revolution ...

At a crucial period for the early Reformation, Frederick protected Luther from the Pope and the emperor, and took him into custody at the Wartburg castle after the Diet of Worms (1521), which put ...