One of the most significant events of the Renaissance was the religious movement of the Sixteenth Century. This milestone, known as the Protestant Reformation, was the most serious upheaval in the Christian Church since the introduction of Christianity into Europe. Primarily, this revolution was neither political, philosophical, nor literary. It was a revolt that was centrally religious and idealistically moral in its motivation. It did, however, achieve revolution in politics, philosophy, literature, art, and music in the end, although it was not begun for the sake of these aims. The German Reformation was dir