592 Outlines of European History in 1520 he summoned his students to witness what he called "a pious religious spectacle." He had a fire built outside the walls of Wittenberg and cast into it Leo X's bull condemning him, etictmmm. ^9 |u> H 1 i ^^m BEfl Fig. 212. The Papal Bull directed against Luther, 1521 This is a much-reduced reproduction of the title-page of the Pope's bull " against the errors of Martin Luther and his followers " as it was printed and distributed in Germany. The coat of arms with its "balls" is that of the Medici family to which Leo X belonged and a copy of the Laws of the Church, together with a volume of scholastic theology which he specially disliked.! Yet Luther dreaded disorder. He was certainly sometimes reckless and violent in his writings and often said that bloodshed
