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Martin Luther used the medium of print to distribute and popularize his ideas after 1517. Pictured here is a portion of the frontispiece of the first English translation of his "Table Talk," edited by Captain Henry Bell and published in London in 1652. (Wikimedia Commons/Internet Archive)

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)