Stefan Bauer is lecturer in history at King's College London and the author of The Invention of Papal History (Oxford University Press, 2020).

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A portion of the frontispiece of the first English translation of Martin Luther's "Table Talk," edited by Captain Henry Bell and published in London in 1652.(Wikimedia Commons/Internet Archive)

Margaret Meserve's 'Papal Bull' details how the Renaissance church used print to spread views

Opinion
Culture
Jul 23, 2022

In Papal Bull: Print, Politics, and Propaganda in Renaissance Rome, Margaret Meserve writes that the papacy had a "greater command of print and its possibilities than previously realized."