For the Sake of Simple Folk Popular Propaganda for the German Reformation

Name: For the Sake of Simple Folk Popular Propaganda for the German Reformation
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ISBN: 9780198203261

ISBN-10: 0198203268

ISBN-13: 9780198203261

Edition: 1994

Authors: R. W. Scribner

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In this book R. W. Scribner provides the first detailed analysis of the forms of propaganda - such as illustrated broadsheets, picture books, title pages, and book illustrations - which were aimed at the illiterate and semi-literate during the Reformation, and reproduces many of the vast corpus of prints which still survive in scattered locations in Germany. Dr Scribner advances new and original interpretations of these illustrations, revealing how visual propaganda exploited popular belief and the coarser aspects of popular culture, while at the same time being a product of them. This, he suggests, explains why the Reformation appealed to the broad masses of sixteenth-century people, even…

Book details

List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/1/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Abbreviations


Introduction



Printing, Prints and Propaganda



Images of Luther 1519-25



Enemies of the Gospel



Popular Culture



Popular Belief



Antichrist and the World Turned Upside-down



Teaching the Gospel: Propaganda as Instruction



The Rhetoric of the Image



Postscript


Appendix: Depictions of Luther in the 1520s


Notes


Catalogue of Illustrations


Bibliography


Supplementary Bibliography


Index