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The Day of The Theses: Luther's Protest, 31 October 1517

The Day of The Theses: Luther's Protest, 31 October 1517

Paperback

Series: Days That Made History

German History

ISBN13: 9798264107047
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 6 2025
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
On a raw October morning in 1517 a professor slid inked propositions into an archbishop's hand-and the humming presses of northern Europe did the rest. What began as a procedural disputation became public argument: shorthand slogans in taverns, printed broadsides in market squares, and a moral question that threatened money, office, and conscience. The Day of the Theses follows that sliver of time when a scholar's provocation met an information network hungry for controversy.

Witty, incisive, and sharply reported, JD Arden tracks the mechanics as much as the motives-printing houses and itinerant students, indulgence preachers and wary princes-showing how ideas travel, mutate, and force institutions to choose. Read this for a clear, scene-rich account of how a single act of dissent widened into a test of belief and power-and why the speed of that moment still matters today.

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