"the first book-burning of the Reformation era"

"in the violent and destructive culture wars set off by the Reformation, it was the evangelicals who were the first to commit their opponents' works to the fire."

     Andrew Pettegree on the burning of the Koch/Tetzel countertheses by the students of Wittenberg University in March of 1518, Brand Luther:  1517, printing, and the making of the Reformation (New York:  Penguin Press, 2015), 79.  Heading from p. 50 of 1517:  Martin Luther and the invention of the Reformation (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2017), by Peter Marshall.