According to the text, Gonzalez relates the reactions that Luther's theses engendered, which includes the political circumstances that prevented Luther's immediate condemnation. The events and responses that led to Luther's identification as a "heretic and a supporter of the teachings of Huss," began a new era in Luther's saga. The political events, such as the election of Charles I of Spain as emperor, which led the pope to issue the bull "Exsurge Domine." Evidently, this pronounced compared Luther to a "wild board that entered the Lord's vineyard," and said that all of Luther's books would burn and that Luther had sixty days to submit himself to Roman authority or face excommunication. When the bull reached Luther, he burned it publicly,
