The Protestant revolutions

Type: Event

As of November 2026, The Protestant revolutions has been mentioned in one podcast episode on The Ezra Klein Show (Nov 2025). Mentioned as an example of how communication technologies can drive political revolutions.

The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation, was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church hierarchy. Towards the end of the Renaissance, the Reformation marked the beginning of Protestantism. It is considered one of the events that signified the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the early modern period in Euro