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LESSON 3 · Art vs Power: The Reformation

PAUSE TO THINK

How many printed works poured out of Germany in the 1520s?

A flood of cheap pamphlets

Luther's break with Rome set off an explosion of short, affordable pamphlets in the 1520s, many of them illustrated. These cheap booklets, not his original Latin theses, carried Reformation ideas to a wide German public.

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