Luther and the German Reformation

Bad for Business: Luther Against the Papacy

This paper analyzes Martin Luther’s criticism of increasingly corrupt church practices, including, the papacy’s granting of indulgences, the promotion of pilgrimage, the preservation and exploitation of relics, the cult of saints, and the belief in saintly intercession. I will examine how Luther’s critiques of these practices were expressed in the religious propaganda that circulated during thi...

Medicine and the Reformation

The historiography of science is now unthinkable without a keen awareness of the interactions between science and religion. Shelves of books and countless articles have been and continue to be written about the relationship between these two great pretenders to supreme knowledge. In general, earlier suggestions that science and religion were completely inimical to one another, irreconcilable ri...

Taverns in Nuremberg Prints at the Time of the German Reformation

Current Issues and Trends in Luther Studies

The Politics of Literacy: The Simulation of Reading

Revolutionary innovations of Martin Luther led Europe to increasingly spreading use and development of literacy and native literary culture. In 1524 Luther turned to aldermen and mayors of all German towns with appeal to found everywhere higher and lower schools and libraries. Luther’s appeal was actively followed in Germany as well as other countries, having joined reformation. In recent years...