Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town Into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe--And Started the Protestant Reformation (60 page)

10
. Nathan Rein,
The Chancery of God: Protestant Print, Polemic and Propaganda Against the Empire, Magdeburg 1546–1551
(Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008).

11
. Ibid., 117.

12
. Christoph Reske,
Die Buchdrucker des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts im Deutschen Sprachgebiet: Auf der Grundlage des Gleichnamigen Werkes von Josef Benzing
(Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2007)
,
580. USTC for the Magdeburg Luther editions (seventy-five editions published by Michael Lotter between 1529 and 1554).

13
. USTC.

14
. Andrew Pettegree, “The London Exile Community and the Second Sacramentarian Controversy, 1553–1560,” in his
Marian Protestantism: Six Studies
(Aldershot: Ashgate, 1996), 55–85.

15
. Dingel, “Culture of Conflict.”

16
. On Lutheran music see Christopher Boyd Brown,
Singing the Gospel: Lutheran Hymns and the Success of the Reformation
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005). Rebecca Wagner Oettinger,
Music as Propaganda in the German Reformation
(Aldershot: Ashgate, 2001).

17
. Philipp Wackernagel,
Das Deutsche Kirchenlied von der Ältesten Zeit bis zu Anfang des XVII. Jahrhunderts
(Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1864–1877).

18
. Brown,
Singing the Gospel,
71.

19
. Famously studied by Gerald Strauss in his
Luther’s House of Learning: Indoctrination of the Young in the German Reformation
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978). Brown’s
Singing the Gospel
takes a very different viewpoint.

20
. R. W. Scribner, “Luther Myth: A Popular Historiography of the Reformer,” in his
Popular Culture and Popular Movements in Reformation Germany
(London: Hambledon, 1987), 301–22. Robert Kolb,
Martin Luther as Prophet, Teacher, and Hero
(Grand Rapids: Baker, 1999).

21
. Jon Balserak,
John Calvin as Sixteenth-Century Prophet
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).

22
. Scribner, “Myth,” 310.

23
. R. W. Scribner, “Incombustible Luther: The Image of the Reformer in Early Modern Germany,” in
Popular Culture and Popular Movements,
323–53.

24
. Reske,
Buchdrucker,
400 ff.

25
. The seventh largest printing industry in Germany, in fact. USTC.

26
. Reske,
Buchdrucker,
400–401.

27
. 114 editions to Wittenberg’s 234. USTC.

28
. Dingel, “Culture of Conflict,” 26.

29
. Helmar Junghans,
Wittenberg als Lutherstadt
(Berlin: Union Verlag, 1979), 146.

30
. Diana Berger-Schmidt et al., “Das Wohn- und Geschäftshaus Markt 3,” in
Das ernestinische Wittenberg: Universität und Stadt (1486–1547)
(Petersberg: Imhof, 2011), 180–90.

31
. Vicky Rothe, “Wittenberger Buchgewerbe und -handel im 16. Jahrhundert,” in Heiner Lück et al., eds.,
Das ernestinische Wittenberg: Stadt und Bewohner,
Wittenberg-Forschungen, 2.1 (Petersberg: Michael Imhof, 2013), 77–90.

32
. Ibid., 89–90.

33
. Ibid., 84.

34
. Alastair Duke,
Reformation and Revolt in the Low Countries
(London: Hambledon, 1990), 114.

35
. Carl P. E. Springer,
Luther’s Aesop
(Kirkville, MO: Truman State University, 2011).

36
. USTC.

37
. Each of them with approximately 16,000 editions, out of a total of 55,000 published throughout Europe. USTC.

38
. Andrew Pettegree,
The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself
(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014).

39
. Paas,
German Political Broadsheet
.

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I
NDEX

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Acta Augustana,
99, 107

adiaphora, 315

Admonition to the Clergy Assembled at the Reichstag,
271–72

Admonition to Peace,
240–42

Admonition to Prayer Against the Turks,
293

Aesop, 333

Against Hanswurst,
298–301

Against the Assassin of Dresden,
287–88

Against the Execrable Bull of Antichrist,
124

Against the Heavenly Prophets,
194, 242

Against the Papacy at Rome, Founded by the Devil,
301

Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants,
242–43

Against the Sabbatarians,
296

Agricola, Stephan, 205–56

Albert, Elector of Saxony, 15

Albrecht of Brandenburg (Archbishop of Mainz), 8, 64–67, 69, 71, 73–74, 77, 89–90, 138, 153–54, 204, 230

Albrecht of Brandenburg-Ansbach, 66

Aleander, Jerome, 132, 135, 168, 210–11, 217

All Saints’ Day, 16–17, 38, 72

Allstedt, 237, 239

Alpine passes, 9

Alps, 34

Alsace, 235

Altenburg, 87, 224

Altomünster, 203

Amerbach, Basil, 205

Amerbach, Boniface, 205

Amsdorf, Nicolas von 137, 181, 185–56, 193, 302, 315

An die Ratsherren Aller Städte Deutschen Landes,
265–66

An Open Letter on the Harsh Book Against the Peasants,
243

Anabaptists, 294

Anfechtungen, 47

Anselm, Thomas, 171, 183

Answer to the Book of the Goat Emser,
181

Antichrist, 129, 131, 168, 245, 257, 293–95, 301–2

Antwerp, 11, 122, 126, 224, 328, 333

Apel, Johann, 255

Apocalypse, apocalyptic, 187, 257, 291, 293

Apocrypha, 191

Apologia,
271

apothecary, 152

Appellatio,
99–100

Aquinas, Thomas, 50

Aristotle, 48, 50, 115

Army Sermon Against the Turks,
293

Aschaffenburg, 74

Asia, 9

Assertio pro Emsero,
218

astrology, 290

Augsburg, 9, 14, 23, 57, 62, 87, 91–92, 97–99, 110, 135, 167, 190, 200, 202, 206, 213, 218, 260, 270, 331, 337

printing, 60, 80, 91, 95, 105–7, 120, 127, 146–48, 161, 163, 208–9, 212, 219–20, 238, 271–72, 297, 306, 335

Augsburg Confession (
Confessio Augustana
)
,
176, 254, 271

Augsburg Interim, 314–15, 318

Augsburg Peace (1555), 317–19

Augustus, Elector of Saxony, 320

Augustine, 48, 50, 192, 228

Augustinians, 7, 13, 19, 22, 32–35, 39, 42, 49, 52, 56, 62, 78, 88, 90–91, 94, 202, 332

Babylon, 254

Babylonian Captivity of the Church, The,
117, 123, 125, 128–30, 177, 204

Bad Neustadt, 28

Baden, 247

Baltic, 9, 177

Bamberg, 122

banking, 9, 29, 74

baptism, 128

Barabbas, 170

Barnes, Robert, 184

Basel, 9, 195, 203, 228, 245, 247

printing 60, 71, 75, 80, 99, 105–7, 112, 114, 120, 127, 146–47, 173, 178, 184–85, 188–89, 203, 208, 220, 230, 246, 274–75

university 203, 245–46

Baumgärtner, Jerome, 256

Bautzen, 336

Bavaria, 236

Benno, St., 112

Berlin, 49, 336

Bern, 247

Bernardi von Feldkirchen, Bartholomäus, 50

Beroaldo, Filippo, 43

Betbuchlein,
260, 270

Bible, 9, 23, 50, 142, 161, 170, 173, 179, 185–92, 195, 237, 255, 267–70, 277, 279, 306, 331, 334–35, 337