Who was the founder of the Protestant Reformation as noted in the nonfiction book, A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age?

Martin Luther was the founder of the Protestant Reformation who, in Manchester's eyes, set the social, political and spiritual wheels in motion that undid European Christendom by splitting the Western Church into pieces. While Manchester thought Luther a half-mad quasi-savage, he still sees him as a fundamentally positive historical force.