A study of Protestant and Catholic pamphlets published in Strasbourg during the early years of the Reformation looks at Martin Luther's use of the recently invented printing press and his dominance of the new medium.
"One of the most important works ever written on the reception of Luther through print."--Thomas Brady, University of California, Berkeley "One of the most important works ever written on the reception of Luther through print.
Publishing in advance of the Reformation's 500th anniversary, Brand Luther fuses the history of religion, of printing, and of capitalism--the literal marketplace of ideas--into one enthralling story, revolutionizing our understanding of one ...
Philipp, landgrave of Hesse, Dritte warhafftige Verantwortung, alter deren Dinge, so S. F. G. von Hertzog Heinrichen, der sich nennet den Jiingern von Braunschweig, zugelegt worden seyn, Es betreffe den auffgehaltenen Secretarien, ...
Containing contributions from distinguished scholars from disciplines, such as: philosophy, political theory, anthropology, classics, and religious studies, this book seeks to address this question.
In Augsburg, for example, one of Germany's most important political, financial and economic centres, Zwinglian, Anabaptist, Lutheran and Catholic ideas coexisted and the Reformation was anything but a swift urban 'event' – it was a ...
[7] B. M. G. Reardon, Religious Thought in the Reformation (1981). Old-fashioned approach which equates 'religious thought' with theology, but a very useful survey of Reformation doctrine. [8] R. W. Scribner, 'Is there a Social History ...
This is the first study to offer an account of the Reformation origins and subsequent flourishing of the Lutheran baroque, of the rich visual culture that developed in parts of the Holy Roman Empire during the later seventeenth and early ...
Flickering of the Flame: Print and the Reformation
OXFORD STUDIES IN HISTORICAL THEOLOGY Series Editor David C. Steinmetz, Duke University Editorial Board Irena Backus, Université de Genève Robert C. Gregg, Stanford University George M. Marsden, University of Notre Dame Wayne A. Meeks, ...
In the three years that followed, Luther clarified and defended his position in numerous writings. Chief among these are the three treatises written in 1520.