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Hello, I'm Dr. Eleanorianica and welcome to Gone Medieval from History Hit, the podcast that delves into the greatest millennium in human history.

We uncover the greatest mysteries, the gobsmacking details, and the latest groundbreaking

research from the Vikings to the Normans, from kings to popes, to the crusades. We delve into

the rebellions, plots, and murders that tell us who we really were. And how we got here.

It's 1517, the very beginning of the early modern period.

And in Wittenberg, in what is now Germany, a priest and profanist and profan the very beginning of the early modern period.

And in Wittenberg, in what is now Germany,

a priest and professor of moral theology at the university is walking up to the doors of All Saints Church

to post a series of arguments.

This practice is standard.

Scholars at the university who intend on debating their ideas were to post them publicly. That way, interested individuals would know what was to be argued

and disputants would have time to read up on the various arguments. In all, there were 95

arguments or theses. And a lot of them centered on the practice of selling papal indulgences.

For example, theses 30 through 34 argue that, no one is sure of the integrity of his own contrition, much less of having received

plenary remission. The man who actually buys indulgences is as rare as he who is really

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