{"product_id":"coram-deo-the-autumn-luther-set-europe-alight-wittenberg-1517-9798199865395","title":"Coram Deo: The Autumn Luther Set Europe Alight Wittenberg 1517","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Michael McGilbourne\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Historical - Renaissance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Autumn Luther Set Europe Alight Wittenberg 1517\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou are the end point of an unbroken chain of survival.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book takes you to one of the most extraordinary moments in that story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWittenberg, Germany. October-November 1517.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA printing press in a small Saxon shop. A journeyman with ink-black hands. A sheet of Latin that changed a continent. A monk. An archbishop's debt to a banker. A woman walking to J�terbog with a pfennig to buy forgiveness for her dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat happens when an idea meets a press?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin weeks, identical copies reached five cities. Within months, a thousand existed. Within a year, it was in German, being read aloud in streets. Official history calls this the Reformation. But nobody in 1517 knew. They only knew a piece of paper was being copied, and they could not make it stop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eCoram Deo\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003easks what it would have meant to be inside that moment.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot as Martin Luther - the monk whose name would reshape the Church. Not as the Elector, the Archbishop, the Pope in Rome.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut as the ordinary \u003cb\u003ejourneyman composer\u003c\/b\u003e - twenty-seven years old, dead wife, black-handed craft, a small daughter asleep - who \u003cb\u003eset, letter by letter, the first printing of a sentence that would split an age\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat did the printer know?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat did he feel in his hands when his hands, trembling for weeks, finally went still?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat is the difference between a piece of lead and a movement - when the man who held the lead saw no difference at all?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe facts are extraordinary enough.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA monk at Wittenberg, reading Paul, understood that the Church's sale of forgiveness was a sale of something that had never been for sale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn archbishop in Mainz owed a banker in Augsburg twenty-nine thousand gulden. A new indulgence was issued to pay it. A Dominican friar rode the roads selling it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA printing press, invented sixty-seven years before, could now copy a single sheet into a thousand identical copies within months.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn October 31st, 1517, a sheet was nailed to a church door in a small Saxon town. On November 1st, pilgrims walked past it on their way to see relics. No one knew they were witnessing the beginning of the end of an age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithin weeks, the sheet had been copied in five cities. Within months, a thousand copies existed. Within a year, it was in German and being read aloud in the streets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Pope, three years later, attempted to have the monk burned. 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