How are humanism and reformation related to each other?

On the one hand, the knights were obliged to protect the peasants and respect their work, because each of the three estates plays an important role in the social pyramid. In addition, the well-being of the landowners themselves depended on the products of agricultural labor. On the other hand, the knights allowed themselves arbitrariness in relation to the serfs. They despised the peasants for their “lack of concepts of honor and dignity.”