The Ninety-Five Latin Propositions a German Friar Sent to His Archbishop on Halloween 1517 and That Maybe He Also Nailed to a Door
Martin Luther sent his *Disputatio pro declaratione virtutis indulgentiarum* — the Ninety-Five Theses — to Archbishop Albrecht of Mainz on 31 October 1517. The famous door-nailing detail is from a single later source. Within five years the document had substantially detonated Western Christendom.
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