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This is the publisher's promotional flyer for my book, The Chancery of God. It's a book on the history of the German city of Magdeburg during the m...
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This is the publisher's promotional flyer for my book, The Chancery of God. It's a book on the history of the German city of Magdeburg during the mid-sixteenth century, during the decade following the death of Martin Luther. During this time, Germany saw its first large-scale religious war (the so-called War of the League of Smalcald, usually called the Schmalkaldic War), which ended with a victory by the Catholic Emperor Charles V and brought with it fears that the still-young Protestant movement would be forcibly suppressed. During this time, the Old Town of Magdeburg fought to preserve its distinctively Protestant identity, using the city's three printing presses (invented less than a century prior) as its most formidable weapons. The city's leaders adopted the never-before-seen tactic of issuing a massive torrent of pamphlet literature which amounted in effect to anti-Imperial and anti-Catholic propaganda. This monograph analyzes the content of these pamphlets and draws some broad conclusions about what Protestantism meant, ultimately, for Magdeburg's defenders.
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