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Diet of Worms
Diet of Worms 1521, most famous of the imperial diets held at Worms, Germany. It was opened in Jan., 1521, by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V . After disposing of other business, notably the question of the Reichsregiment , the diet took up the question of the recalcitrant behavior of Martin Luther... Read more
diet
diet parliamentary bodies in Japan, Poland, Hungary, Bohemia, the Scandinavian nations, and Germany have been called diets. In German history, the diet originated as a meeting of landholders and burghers, convoked by the ruler to discuss financial problems. The imperial diet or Reichstag of the ... Read more
Worms
Worms , city (1994 pop. 79,155), Rhineland-Palatinate, SW Germany, on the Rhine River. It is an industrial city and a leading wine trade center. Manufactures include leather goods, textiles, electrical appliances, paints, ceramics, chemicals, and machinery. One of the most venerable historic centers... Read more
Justus Jonas
Justus Jonas , 1493-1555, German Protestant reformer. In 1521, Jonas, then a professor at the Univ. of Erfurt, accompanied Martin Luther to the Diet of Worms. During their intimate friendship Jonas assisted Luther with the translation of the Bible. He also translated the Latin works of Luther and Me... Read more
Frederick III
Frederick III or Frederick the Wise, 1463-1525, elector of Saxony (1486-1525). At Wittenberg he founded (1502) the university where Martin Luther and Melanchthon taught. At a crucial period for the early Reformation, Frederick protected Luther from the pope and the emperor, and took him int... Read more
Nemertinea
Nemertinea , phylum of elongated, often flattened, marine Worms , sometimes called ribbon worms. There are 900 known species, ranging in size from a fraction of an inch to 90 ft (27 m). The most distinctive structure of the carnivorous ribbon worms is a proboscis that can be shot out to capture foo... Read more
lyrebird
lyrebird common name for Australian passerine birds named for the appearance of the tail plumage of the male superb lyrebird, Menura novaehollandiae, when displayed during courtship. There are only two species. The superb lyrebird, about the size of a rooster, is brown above and ash below. It has... Read more
tenrec
tenrec , any of the small insectivorous mammals of the family Tenrecidae, also called tendrecs or tanrecs. These animals are found on the island of Madagascar. In that closed environment they have evolved diverse forms, filling various ecological niches occupied by other small mammals elsewhere. The... Read more
Martin Luther
Martin Luther 1483-1546, German leader of the Protestant Reformation, b. Eisleben, Saxony, of a family of small, but free, landholders. Early Life and Spiritual Crisis Luther was educated at the cathedral school at Eisenach and at the Univ. of Erfurt (1501-5). In 1505 he completed his mas... Read more
Henry V
Henry V 1081-1125, Holy Roman emperor (1111-25) and German king (1105-25), son of Henry IV. Crowned joint king with his father in 1099, he put himself at the head of the party desiring reconciliation with the pope and, with the approval of Pope Paschal II , rebelled (1104) against his father and c... Read more

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Diet of Worms
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Diet of Worms 1521, most famous of the imperial diets held at Worms, Germany. It was...question of the Reichsregiment , the diet took up the question of the recalcitrant...safe-conduct on Apr. 16. At the diet Luther was asked if he would retract...
Worms, Diet of
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Worms, Diet of (1521) Conference of the Holy Roman...Luther was summoned to appear before the Diet to retract his teachings, which had been...25, 1521) declared him an outlaw. The Diet was one of the most important confrontations...
Worms
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Worms , city (1994 pop. 79,155...including about 100 imperial diets, were held there. The best...the Concordat of Worms; the diet of 1495 (see Maximilian I , emperor); and the diet of 1521 (see Worms, Diet of ). The City suffered heavy...
diet
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...financial problems. The imperial diet or Reichstag of the Holy Roman...parts. Among the most important diets were those of Worms (1495) and Cologne (1512...emperor. The most important diets of the Reformation were Worms...1530, 1547, 1555). The diet declined in importance and after...
Charles V
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...leaders were executed. Charles later won the loyalty of his Spanish subjects. In Germany, at the fateful Diet of Worms (see Worms, Diet of ) in 1521, Charles secured a satisfactory compromise regarding the Reichsregiment but unyieldingly opposed...
Reichsregiment
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...government of the empire], imperial council created by the Diet of Augsburg in 1500. It was intended to form the executive...Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, was requested at the Diet of Worms (1521) to restore the Reichsregiment, but he merely...
Charles V (Holy Roman Empire) (1500–1558; Holy Roman Emperor, 1519–1556; King of Spain as Charles I, 1516–1556)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...s institutions, if necessary at the expense of princely independence. His condemnation of Martin Luther at the Diet of Worms in 1521 accomplished nothing. In 1530 at Augsburg and again in 1540 at Regensburg he attempted to achieve peaceful...
Luther, Martin
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography ...thus laying himself open to the charge of heresy (believing in something that opposes what is formally taught by the Church). By 1521 Eck secured a papal bull (decree) condemning Luther, and Luther was summoned to the Imperial Diet at Worms
Martin Luther
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...renunciation of papal authority, Luther held a public burning of the bull and of the canon law. In 1521 formal excommunication was pronounced. In the same year Luther was given a safe-conduct and was summoned before the Diet of Worms (see
Dürer, Albrecht (1471–1528)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...xE1; n Cort é s, as well as his deep despair at hearing the false news of Luther's arrest after the Diet at Worms (entry of 17 May 1521). During his stay in the Netherlands, however, he contracted the lingering illness that...

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Diet of Worms
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Diet of Worms a meeting of the Holy Roman emperor Charles V's imperial diet at Worms in 1521, at which Martin Luther...formally condemned in the Edict of Worms. Diet , recorded from late Middle English, comes...
Worms, Diet of
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History Worms, Diet of (1521) A meeting between LUTHER and CHARLES V that took place in the city of Worms, on the River Rhine, in Germany. Luther...Protestant reform and on the last day of the Diet his teaching was formally condemned in the...
Worms
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Worms an industrial town in western Germany, on the Rhine north-west of Mannheim, which was the scene in 1521 of the condemnation of Martin Luther's teaching, at the Diet of Worms .
Diet
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms Diet a formal public assembly, e.g., Diet of Worms, 1521. See also .
Protestant
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...protestatio ) of Martin Luther and his supporters dissenting from the decision of the Diet of Spires (1529), which reaffirmed the edict of the Diet of Worms against the Reformation. All Protestants reject the authority of the papacy, both religious...
Charles V
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...problem confronting him was the growth of Lutheranism . The Diet of Worms (1521) banned M. Luther , but Charles's other difficulties prevented him from taking consistent action. At the Diet of Augsburg (1555) the Protestant princes forced upon...
Luther, Martin
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...was excommunicated in 1521. He was summoned before the Diet of Worms , refused to recant, and was put under the ban of the...situation continued to favour the spread of his views. The Diet of Speyer (1526) established the right of the princes...
Aleander, Girolamo
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...the bull ‘ Exsurge Domine ’ and to negotiate with the Emperor for support against him. At the Diet of Worms (1521) he denounced Luther and demanded his condemnation without trial. In 1524 he was made Abp. of Brindisi and...
Amsdorf, Nikolaus von
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church ...Lutheran theologian. He joined M. Luther in 1517 and accompanied him to the Disputation of Leipzig (1519) and the Diet of Worms (1521). In 1524 he went to Magdeburg to lead the Protestant opposition to the Catholic clergy and to reform the...
Wartburg
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church Wartburg. The castle in Thuringia where M. Luther was hidden after being seized (with his own connivance) on his way home from the Diet of Worms in 1521.

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The Diet of Worms and the Defenestration of Prague
Magazine article from: Natural History; 9/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...1521, he spent ten days on the Diet of Worms (washed down with a good deal...euphonious phrases of history. The Diet of Worms is my prize specimen...emperor and a rump session of the Diet issued the Edict of Worms on May 8. But this document...
Bacterial diet quiets worm genes. (Genetics).
Magazine article from: Science News; 10/19/2002; 633 words ; ...not weight-loss, diet. By feeding genetically engineered bacteria to worms, researchers have developed...to deactivate specific worm genes and study their...if not all, of the worm's genes (SN: 12...interference. By injecting a worm with a strand of RNA corresponding...p. 36). Injecting ...
Germany launches five stamps, including stamp on 500th anniversary of the Diet of Worms. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 1/19/1995; ; 535 words ; ...on the 500th anniversary of the Diet of Worms. The imperial diet, or legislative assembly, was...of the Holy Roman Empire. The diet also introduced the first general...current German tax system. Other diets were also held at Worms, including...
Warming up to a diet of worms
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 6/3/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Times 06-03-2007 Warming up to a diet of worms Byline: Kathirasen Edition: New...eat you. Also, opening a can of worms might no longer be an idiom; it...happened? Gossip Two: She went on a diet of half-boiled praying mantis...
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Humanist; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History by Stephen Jay...appearance before the Holy Roman Empire's diet, which met periodically in the old German city of Worms to conduct its legislative business. Other...
Teachers tormented by Victorian exams ; Trainee teachers in Plymouth have been left flummoxed by a mind- bending examination from 1846 which left them wondering: "What the heck was the Diet of Worms?".
Newspaper article from: Plymouth Evening Herald, The; 10/30/2008; ; 613 words ; ...them wondering: "What the heck was the Diet of Worms?". A lecturer at the University College...have been expected to know the date of the Diet of Worms, which is not in fact some celebrity fad diet. It was actually an extremely important...
Sett for starvation; Badgers desperate for food as the hot, dry weather kills off their staple diet of worms.
Newspaper article from: The Mail on Sunday (London, England); 8/24/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...summer killed off their staple diet. The best weather for years...thing at night to encourage worms to the surface for badgers to...on earthworms as their staple diet and the long hot period has reduced the worm population. In desperation...thing at night to encourage worms to the surface.' ...
Country gardener: The diet of worms
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 4/5/2003; ; 546 words ; ...possible to exercise ownership over a worm, I suppose I can say that those 2,000 worms now belong to me. Many unexpected alterations...something about this amazing talent that worms have because I had heard that Roger Daltrey...dumps turned into heaps of earth-loving worm casts. What I did not ...
Fishing lines: I survived on a diet of worms
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 4/27/2003; ; 641 words ; ...occasionally hides a red, yellow and green worm.) Time tends to smooth off the edges...invariably cheated me on the number of worms I had dug. Sea-fishing bait is big...generate the same waste as a small town), worm farming is good clean fun. The only problem for the company is seabirds. Worm ...
Man in Thailand Promotes 'Diet of Worms'
News Wire article from: AP Online; 9/2/2003; 339 words ; ...0000 Dateline: BANGKOK, Thailand A worm a day keeps the doctor away _ at least...Tuesday that he has been eating a live worm every day for nearly three decades, and...realized fish don't die from eating worms so I shouldn't either. I ate them until...in a telephone interview. He now loves worms, ...