Date: Thursday, 9 March 2006
Length: 45 minutes, or as long as you need

Topics to cover:

• Printing and the Reformation
  • Presentation of the general impact of printing on religion in the Renaissance: what was it about printing that allowed the protestant movement to spread so widely and so quickly
  • Printing centers in Northern Europe vs Southern Europe
  • The Church index of banned books
  • Luther and the printing press:
    • What did he print?
    • how did he use it?
    • Luther and Cranach
      

Please coordinate the information from all your presenters. You will need to contact one another outside class to do so. We do not want to waste time loading files. Please come to class early to set up your presentation.