The Unheralded Monk Who Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing

What made Martin Luther so special was that he used new media to circumvent the traditional gatekeepers and ordered structures of legitimacy and communication. Luther used the printing press to create a grass-roots movement four centuries before anyone would have understood the term. This was his genius—and it was a genius that transformed western society.
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