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Conflicting Visions of Reform
German Lay Propaganda Pamphlets, 1519-1530
Series: - Studies in Central European Histories, Volume: 7
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Cultural, historical and textual analysis of 300 propaganda pamphlets written by 166 German laymen and women reveals that each social class heard the Reformation message differently. The writers enthusiastically interpreted the Bible for themselves, finding justification for social and economic changes which suited the aims of their own class. The new ideology deepened the existing divisions in rural and urban society. The book presents, for the first time, a comprehensive selection of 166 lay authors.
Knights, rural civil servants, technicians, patricians, lawyers and artisans describe the existing social order, their new beliefs and their hopes for change. They are eloquent and immensely human.
Knights, rural civil servants, technicians, patricians, lawyers and artisans describe the existing social order, their new beliefs and their hopes for change. They are eloquent and immensely human.
Miriam Usher Chrisman, Ph.D. (1962), taught in the History Department of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst from 1963-1986. Her publications include Strasbourg and the Reform: A Study in the Process of Change (1982), Lay Culture, Learned Culture: Book and Social Change in Strasbourg, 1480-1599 (1982), Bibliography of Strasbourg Imprints, 1480-1599 (1982) and numerous articles and numerous articles and book chapters.
All those interested in the Renaissance and Reformation, the History of Religion, Early Modern European history, and Social History of Early Modern Europe