Fall Asleep as a Printer Working During the Protestant Reformation

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Step inside a dim sixteenth-century printing workshop during the Protestant Reformation, where revolutionary ideas are assembled one tiny piece of lead type at a time.

Tonight, you experience life as a printer surrounded by wooden presses, stacks of costly paper, thick black ink, and manuscripts filled with arguments that are transforming Europe. As reformers and their opponents discover the power of the printed word, pamphlets travel between cities, religious debates reach new audiences, and authorities begin paying considerably...