Summary: Title: Martin Luther at the Movies Part 2 Description: In celebration of the 500th Anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, we are doing a series of episodes looking at different aspects of the reformation. Today we are talking with Ben Jacobs of the Wittenberg to Westphalia: Wars of the Reformation podcast to find out more about Martin Luther and how he has been portrayed in popular media. You can learn more about Beyond the Big Screen and subscribe at all these great places: http://atozhistorypage.com/ email: steve@atozhistorypage.com http://rss.acast.com/beyondthebigscreen Agora: www.agorapodcastnetwork.com https://www.patreon.com/papacy On Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/Beyondthebigscreen/ https://twitter.com/BigScreenBeyond Learn More About our Guest: Ben Jacobs – Wittenberg to Westphalia: The Wars of the Reformation Podcast http://wittenbergtowestphaliapodcast.weebly.com/ Agora Podcaster of the Month: Agoraphobia! http://www.agorapodcastnetwork.com/ Music Provided by: "Crossing the Chasm" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Begin Transcript 00:00:00 This is part two of a two part episode I highly recommend you go back and listen to part one. Don't worry we'll be waiting for you be on the big screen. 00:00:12 What was going on in Luther's mind when he nailed up those the 95 theses on that cathedral door did he. Now at that point that he was doing something really big or did he think that he was just sparking a debate. 00:00:31 That's one of the big discussions about that event will probably never be fully resolved. It should be said that putting 95 putting theses up on the castle church door was how you organized a debate. And he was just asking to organize a debate. It's not like he was you know shoving this up the pope's nose or something like that. But and it's also questionable whether Luther did it himself. Some people have suggested he had an assistant go do it. That stuff doesn't really matter. He certainly knew that you know some of his points were contentious but he figured that it would be you know talked about discussed quietly amongst the professionals in Wittenberg. I think that said you see this a little bit in the 2003 movie. There is a character that was named I believe Lucas Cranach who was the court painter of Frederick the wise who was also one of the early success stories of printing. 00:01:38 And you see him twice in the 2003 movie and the first time he goes and reads the the the 95 theses and he yanks him down and goes to his assistant. We've got to get this printed or something along those lines and then they're running off copies and everything. I think one thing to say is that the printing of Luther's material was extremely important. But I also think that it was a little bit more organized and that's where you can sort of go back and forth about whether he planned this to be a big thing. I don't know if he and Cranach got together and said definitely Let's get this printed and get it widely publicized. Off the top of my head I don't remember that but I did know that shortly thereafter Luther and Cranach were together in business running off copies of his speeches and his pamphlets in his broadsheets and distributing t...
