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?
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
The Gutenberg Parenthesis
The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
The Gutenberg Parenthesis traces the epoch of print from its fateful beginnings to our digital present – and draws out lessons for the age to come.
The age of print is a grand exception in history. For five centuries it fostered what some call print culture – a worldview shaped by the completeness, permanence, and authority of the printed word.
Das 2023er Update von "Dann haben die halt meine Daten. Na und?!" ist da! Mit mehr Infos zum #Fediverse und zu #KI sowie DMA, DSA und PrivacyShield2.0. Erhältlich als #eBook, #Print und #horbuch in meinem eigenen eBook- und Hörbuch-Shop, überall, wo es eBooks gibt, bei der #Digitalcourage und überall bei den Buchhändler:innen Eures Vertrauens.
The festivities went on for a long time--and clearly, the printers were as profligate as anyone else.
And recall: going nuts with typefaces back then involved a lot more than clicking a key on the laptop. Someone put a lot of thought and effort into this bad design!