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The Man Who Probably Didn't Nail Anything to a Door
Martin Luther talked about the autumn of 1517 for the rest of his life. He never once described a door. On the thirty-first of October itself, the only thing we can document is a letter to the Archbishop of Mainz, so deferential you would never guess its author was about to break Europe in half.
The famous version comes from a memorial preface Philipp Melanchthon wrote in 1546. In the autumn of 1517, Melanchthon was a twenty-year-old in Tübingen who had never met Luther. A second account, a note in the hand of Luther’s secretary found in a Jena library in 2006, says the theses went up on the…
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