My Lists
Featured Lists
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
By Pettegree, Andrew
- ISBN
- 9781594204968 9780698410176
- Publisher
- Penguin Pr.
REVIEWS
Library Journal
Reviewed on September 15, 2015 | Social Sciences
Many biographies of Protestant reformer Martin Luther (1483–1546) deserve attention, with Roland Bainton's Here I Stand authoritatively at the front of the line. What sets this volume from Pettegree (modern history, Univ. of St. Andrews) apart is his narrative frame: he focuses on Luther's uncanny knack for exploiting an emerging technology called the printing press to spread the Protestant gospel in 16th-century Europe. "Catechisms and prayer books, Bibles and hymnals...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
