Exhibition on the history of the Reformation era

 

December 7, 2017 at the Reading hall of Scientific and Historical archive the exhibition “Reflection of the Reformation in Europe in documents of the Archive of Saint Petersburg Institute of History of the RAS” has been opened.

Genuine letters of well-known figures of the Reformation from Germany, England and Switzerland are on the display. Among them there are letters by Martin Luther, Philipp Melanchthon, the Queen of Scots Mary Stuart and the open letter by Henry VIII. The exhibition incorporates also some other documents and early printed books of the period of the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation.

 

The exhibition has been organized by the archivists of the Western European section of the Archive Cand. Sc. in History E.I. Nosova, Cand. Sc. in History N.B. Sredinskaya and research fellows of the Department of General History Cand. Sc. in History S.A. Isaev and Cand. Sc. in History T.N. Tatsenko.
The exhibition is open for visitors in the office hours of the Reading hall of the Archive till December 28, 2017.