The Fifteen Confederates

Description

The Fifteen Confederates was published anonymously in the autumn of 1521, shortly after Martin Luther’s 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 Günzburg, 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 gives us a valuable window onto the aspirations and dreams that accompanied Luther’s initial calls for reform of the church and society.