Description

In the aftermath of the capture of Constantinople by the Turks under Sultan Mehmed II on May 29, 1453, numerous writers in Europe called on the rulers of Europe to defend Christendom. The new art of printing lent itself to the propagation of such calls. Accordingly, it was in the workshop of Johann Gutenberg, the printer of the famous 42-line Bible that bears his name, that the first political pamphlet in the German language on this topic was printed with the title Eyn manung der cristenheit widder die durken (An ...