Present were Justus Jonas, Bugenhagen, and Johann Apel, professor of law at the university, along with Lucas Cranach and his wife. They were there to witness an extraordinary event, the betrothal of a forty-two-year-old former monk to a twenty-six-year-old former nun, Katharina von Bora. Bugenhag...
In Germany, the Low Countries and particularly England newspapers had captured the public imagination. In London a multiplicity of competing papers fuelled the poisonous politics of the age, and posed those in power unfamiliar problems of news management. But who exactly lay behind this vast incr...