The Fifteen Confederates was published anonymously in the fall of 1521, shortly after Martin Luthers hearing at the Diet of Worms and subsequent disappearance. The fifteen pamphlets that make up the book address religious, social, economic, and political challenges facing the German people. Their author, Johann Eberlin von Gunzburg, subsequently became one of the most prolific and popular pamphleteers of the German Reformation. As an important contribution to the pamphlet war that accompanied the beginnings of the Reformation in Germany, The Fifteen Confederates provides us a valuable window...
The Fifteen Confederates was published anonymously in the fall of 1521, shortly after Martin Luthers hearing at the Diet of Worms and subsequent disap...
