The Reformation in Print: German Pamphlets and Propaganda
@article{Cole1975TheRI, title={The Reformation in Print: German Pamphlets and Propaganda}, author={R. G. Cole}, journal={Archiv f{\"u}r Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History}, year={1975}, volume={66}, pages={102 - 93} }
Scholars toward the end of the fifteenth century enjoyed a perfected printing technology and its products, beautiful folio Bibles, dictionaries, classical and medieval works, and a variety of secular publications. The sixteenth-century pamphlet represents a marked shift in the use of the printing press, a shift most noticeable in German areas and one coinciding with Reformation. The brief, blunt, and vulgar reformation tract intended for a wide and unlearned if not confused audience became a… CONTINUE READING
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Letter to George Spalatin ( August 1521 ) , in Preserved Smith
- Ain Sermon . Von der Kyrchwedie ( 1522 ) , Ciii . Listed in Ho - henemser , op . cit . , nr . 2927
- 1911