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The Reformation in Print: A UWA Library Special Collections and Centre of Medieval and Early Modern Studies online exhibition: Part I: The Manuscript Heritage, I.I The Vitalis Papers: Animal and Human interactions, 1.2 Enclosing knowledge, 1.3 The advent of print; Part 2: Intellectual Contexts: 2.1 Indulgences, 1.4 Jacques Lefèvre d’Etaples’ French New Testament.

Research output: Non-traditional research output › Exhibition › peer-review

Abstract

On 31 October 1517, Martin Luther sent his Ninety-Five Theses to Cardinal Albrecht of Brandenburg, the Archbishop of Mainz, criticising the Roman Catholic Church’s sale of indulgences. On the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, this online exhibition is designed to help students explore how the reformation unfolded through the emerging phenomenon of print culture, through examples from the UWA Library Special Collections. Scholars from the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies consider how the lives, images and thought of Luther, other Reformers and Catholic Reformation leaders were expressed in print, at a time when this fledgling media for communication was in rapid development.

Text written by Susan Broomhall, Kirk Essary, Susanne Meurer and Arvi Wattel.

Photography by Kate McVey and Rosie Inglis, UWA Library.

All texts were peer-reviewed by the authorial team.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationAustralia
PublisherThe University of Western Australia
Media of outputOnline
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2017

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