Things October 31 is besides #Halloween: #Reformation Day, celebrating the date in 1517 when Martin #Luther nailed his 95 theses to a church door in Wittenberg--or did he?
Modern scholarship long tended to dismiss the episode as fictional, citing lack of contemporary evidence. 1/n
Things October 31 is besides #Halloween: #Reformation Day, celebrating the date in 1517 when Martin #Luther nailed his 95 theses to a church door in Wittenberg--or did he?
In 2018, 2 historians from the historical Luther sites set forth the case for the authenticity of the tradition that he nailed the 95 theses to the church door OTD 1517:
Things October 31 is besides #Halloween: #Reformation Day, celebrating the date in 1517 when Martin #Luther nailed his 95 theses to a church door in Wittenberg--or did he?
Book historian Andrew Pettegree, who accepts the tradition, makes the key points in Brand Luther (2017):
Even Luther did not see the Theses as extraordinary
@MetalClassicalRocks@classicalmusic Reaching deep into my bank of old (and possibly incorrect) memories: Bernard Hermann used to have a radio show at KCRW (Santa Monica) called something like "Movie Music". I remember listening to one episode where he described how he constructed the Psycho music.
@beatnikprof@academicchatter Sounds like a bad idea. Most students probably dont want the candy....those that do will just come to expect it. Dont feed the rhinos.
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Oh sounds interesting. I recently picked up a copy of Agustina Bazterrica’s short story collection, Nineteen Claws and a Blackbird. I haven’t read Tender is the Flesh yet, it’s on my tbr, have you read that!