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A REFORMATION PAMPHLET

or Martin Luther, printing was “the latest and greatest gift by which God intends the work of true religion to be known throughout the world”. By 1524, more than 2 million copies of as many as 2,400 individual pamphlets were being produced in the Holy Roman Empire, and across Europe there had been a 1,000 per cent rise in

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