After being excommunicated Luther lived an exile life in
his home country; theorized that confessions should be
private and not accompanied by priests, and also
translated the New Testament into German hoping that
everyone should read the Bible themself.
• Protestant ideas spread quickly both among the lords who
did not want to pay taxes to the Pope and the ordinary
people –peasants and craftsmen- who were oppressed by
the tight organization of the Catholic Church. Peasant, and
proletariat revolts, that promoted Lutheranism and denied
dominant social organization, took place all around
Europe, also provinces and countries converted to
Lutheranism one by one by denying taxes.
• With «Lutheran Expansion», Lutheranism –or
Protestantism- spread to Sweden, Finland, Denmark,
Norway, and then also to France thanks to the king with
humanist ideas, and also to E