Brand Luther: How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town Into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe--And Started the Protestant Reformation Read Online Free

Jane, Megan, and Sophie, go, as always, my thanks for the greatest happiness of my life.
    St. Andrews
    October 2015

A BBREVIATIONS
    Benzing
    Josef Benzing and Helmut Claus, eds. Lutherbibliographie. Verzeichnis der gedruckten Schriften Martin Luthers bis zu dessen Tod . 2 vols. Baden-Baden: Koerner, 1966–1994.
    CE
    Peter G. Bietenholz, ed. Contemporaries of Erasmus. A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation. 3 vols. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1985–1987.
    Corr. Eras.
    R. A. Mynors et al., eds. The Correspondence of Erasmus . 12 vols. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1974–2003.
    Correspondence
    Preserved Smith and Charles M. Jacobs, eds. Luther’s Correspondence and Other Contemporary Letters. 2 vols. Philadelphia: Lutheran Publication Society, 1913–1918.
    Letters
    Gottfried G. Krodel, ed. Letters. Luther’s Works, vols. 48–50. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1963–1975.
    LW
    Jaroslav Pelikan et al., eds. Luther’s Works. Philadelphia: Fortress Press / St. Louis: Concordia, 1955–.
    Prefaces
    Christopher Boyd Brown, ed. Prefaces . Luther’s Works, vols. 59–60. St. Louis: Concordia, 2011–2012.
    USTC
    The Universal Short Title Catalogue. http://ustc.ac.uk/.
    WA
    D. Martin Luthers Werke. Kritische Gesammtausgabe. Weimar: Böhlau, 1883–.
    WABr
    D. Martin Luthers Werke. Kritische Gesammtausgabe. Briefwechsel. 18 vols. Weimar: Böhlau Nachfolger, 1930–1985.
    WATR
    D. Martin Luthers Werke. Kritische Gesammtausgabe. Tischreden. 18 vols. Weimar: Böhlau Nachfolger, 1912–1921.

I NDEX
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    Acta Augustana, 99, 107
    adiaphora, 315
    Admonition to the Clergy Assembled at the Reichstag, 271–72
    Admonition to Peace, 240–42
    Admonition to Prayer Against the Turks, 293
    Aesop, 333
    Against Hanswurst, 298–301
    Against the Assassin of Dresden, 287–88
    Against the Execrable Bull of Antichrist, 124
    Against the Heavenly Prophets, 194, 242
    Against the Papacy at Rome, Founded by the Devil, 301
    Against the Robbing and Murdering Hordes of Peasants, 242–43
    Against the Sabbatarians, 296
    Agricola, Stephan, 205–56
    Albert, Elector of Saxony, 15
    Albrecht of Brandenburg (Archbishop of Mainz), 8, 64–67, 69, 71, 73–74, 77, 89–90, 138, 153–54, 204, 230
    Albrecht of Brandenburg-Ansbach, 66
    Aleander, Jerome, 132, 135, 168, 210–11, 217
    All Saints’ Day, 16–17, 38, 72
    Allstedt, 237, 239
    Alpine passes, 9
    Alps, 34
    Alsace, 235
    Altenburg, 87, 224
    Altomünster, 203
    Amerbach, Basil, 205
    Amerbach, Boniface, 205
    Amsdorf, Nicolas von 137, 181, 185–56, 193, 302, 315
    An die Ratsherren Aller Städte Deutschen Landes, 265–66
    An Open Letter on the Harsh Book Against the Peasants, 243
    Anabaptists, 294
    Anfechtungen, 47
    Anselm, Thomas, 171, 183
    Answer to the Book of the Goat Emser, 181
    Antichrist, 129, 131, 168, 245, 257, 293–95, 301–2
    Antwerp, 11, 122, 126, 224, 328, 333
    Apel, Johann, 255
    Apocalypse, apocalyptic, 187, 257, 291, 293
    Apocrypha, 191
    Apologia, 271
    apothecary, 152
    Appellatio, 99–100
    Aquinas, Thomas, 50
    Aristotle, 48, 50, 115
    Army Sermon Against the Turks, 293
    Aschaffenburg, 74
    Asia, 9
    Assertio pro Emsero, 218
    astrology, 290
    Augsburg, 9, 14, 23, 57, 62, 87, 91–92, 97–99, 110, 135, 167, 190, 200, 202, 206, 213, 218, 260, 270, 331, 337
printing, 60, 80, 91, 95, 105–7, 120, 127, 146–48, 161, 163, 208–9, 212, 219–20, 238, 271–72, 297, 306, 335
    Augsburg Confession ( Confessio Augustana ) , 176, 254, 271
    Augsburg Interim, 314–15, 318
    Augsburg Peace (1555), 317–19
    Augustus, Elector of Saxony, 320
    Augustine, 48, 50, 192, 228
    Augustinians, 7, 13, 19, 22, 32–35, 39, 42, 49, 52, 56, 62, 78, 88, 90–91, 94, 202, 332
    Babylon, 254
    Babylonian Captivity of the Church, The, 117, 123, 125,