Books and their makers during the Middle Ages : $b A study of the conditions of the production and distribution of literature from the fall of the Roman empire to the close of the seventeenth century, Vol. IIPutnam, George Haven
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Books and their makers during the Middle Ages : $b A study of the conditions of the production and distribution of literature from the fall of the Roman empire to the close of the seventeenth century, Vol. II
Putnam, George Haven
Books -- History -- 400-1450; Copyright; Freedom of the press -- History -- To 1500; Manuscripts; Printers
1543. “The Summer Postills,” with a series of sermons on the
Epistles.
1545. A pamphlet entitled “The Popedom at Rome Instituted by the
Devil.”
1545. Cranach’s Caricatures against Popedom, with brief verses on
texts by Luther.
1545. A revised edition of his collected Latin writings.
All the above were printed at Wittenberg.
The greater number of the pamphlets were issued at once in two
editions, one Latin and one German.
One of the more important of the earlier pamphlets or _Flugschriften_
of Luther was the _Address to the Nobles of Germany_, which was printed
in August, 1520, and of which five thousand copies were sold in five
days. Of the pamphlet containing his controversial address against
Eck, printed in 1518, fourteen hundred copies were sold in two days at
the Frankfort Fair. The popular interest excited by the writings of
Luther and his associates brought about a great change in the trade of
the book-shops. Editions of the Fathers and of the lives of the Saints
were pushed to one side from the counters or the book-shelves, or were
stored away in the warehouses, and even the classics were neglected.
All the demand was for the writings of the Reformers. The replies of
the defenders of the Church found for some years a comparatively slow
sale, as the sympathies of the larger book-publishing centres and of
the public reached by them were largely with the Protestants. Some few
of the leading publishers, including the two most important in Germany,
Froben of Basel and Koberger of Nuremberg, remained, however, in the
orthodox fold, and Froben, possibly at the instance of Erasmus, gave up
printing the writings of Luther.
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