>In ancient times, tech and thinking moved so slowly that
>people's lives in any given place looked alot like they had
>for their ancestors 500 years earlier.
>
>Now, that time seems like it's from another planet.

And taken in this framework, it seems almost arbitrary that Luther's thought occurred after the invention and popularization of the printing press. As I outlined above, his thought isn't all THAT different from Wycliffe and Hus, but he had the ability to spread his thought widely - largely through innovative and exhaustive use of the pamphlet genre - and they didn't.

But as per your observation, it's not like his world was really that different than early 15th century Bohemia when Hus lived or late fourteenth century England with Wycliffe lived. He just had a tool they didn't.

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