Published in Zwickau, a hotbed of the radical appropriation of his ideas that Luther came to disdain. The caption for the woodcut reads: "In human terms I am a peasant. God gives his grace where he thinks fit." Diepold Peringer, author of this item…
"The peasant from Wöhrd-by-Nuremberg" was an appellation for the author of this sermon, an itinerant radical preacher at the time of German Peasants’ War. Its theme of the religious value of the layperson indicates how one of Luther’s defining…
"Testimonial Dinner to Hon. Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor or the United States, given by labor organizations, women's clubs, civic and social groups of New York City; Hotel Commodore, New York City" taken from cover.