The coarseness and violence of the pamphlets on both sides and the public disorder attributed to their distribution led to their prohibition by imperial edict in 1589. Martin Luther was one of the earliest and most effective pamphleteers. In Germany the pamphlet was first used by the leaders of the Protestant Reformation to inflame popular opinion against the pope and the Roman Catholic church. In France so many pamphlets were issued in support of the Reformed religion that edicts prohibiting them were promulgated in 1523, 1553, and 1566. The first great age of pamphleteering was inspired by the religious controversies of the early 16th century. Pamphlets were among the first printed materials, and they were widely used in England, France, and Germany. Although the word tract is almost synonymous, it generally describes religious publications. Librarians and bibliographers generally classify as a pamphlet any short work, unbound or bound in paper covers. Since polemical and propagandist works on topical subjects were circulated in this form, the word came to be used to describe them. Pamphlet, brief booklet in the UNESCO definition, it is an unbound publication that is not a periodical and contains no fewer than 5 and no more than 48 pages, exclusive of any cover.Īfter the invention of printing, short unbound or loosely bound booklets were called pamphlets.
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