The Reformation at 500

The spread of Reformation's powerful ideas would not have possible without the innovation of printing with moveable type. A new exhibit from LSU Libraries Special Collections, The Reformation at 500: A Reflection in Rare Books, looks into the intentions, influences, relationships, and consequences associated with printed texts during the sixteenth and seventeenth as well as later centuries. Selected works from the library's impressive cache reveal the printed word's dual edge—able to inform and to attack at once—as well as the context into which each book and bible was born and what they meant to their various owners. On view from October 2—December 21 at the Hill Memorial Library's lecture hall. lib.lsu.edu/special.