#199: The Protestant Reformation Gets Going, c. 1517

An episode from 9/9/25: Tonight, I read from three books:

• A small passage from The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe, by Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, on how pocket calendars were essential references for popular knowledge.
• A longer passage, on the Protestant Reformation (and the invention of moveable type that facilitated its spread), from Jacques Barzun’s From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 to the Present: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life.
• I conclude with small passage on Martin Luther's contemporary, Erasmus of Rotterdam, from my book Notes from the Grid.

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