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Europe’s territorial fracture only substantiated Luther’s charges about the Church’s corruption, and made his message about the need for reform more exigent. Without the looming threat of the Ottomans, the great sweep of the Protestant Reformation would not have been possible.
Alan Mikhail • God's Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the Making of the Modern World
The Greek Revolution: 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
