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Book Popular Culture and Popular Movements in Reformation Germany

Download or read book Popular Culture and Popular Movements in Reformation Germany written by R. W. Scribner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1988-07-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reformation has traditionally been explained in terms of theology, the corruption of the church and the role of princes. R.W. Scribner, while not denying the importance of these, shifts the context of study of the German Reformation to an examination of popular beliefs and behaviour, and of the reactions of local authorities to the problems and opportunities for social as well as religious reform. This book brings together a coherent body of work that has appeared since 1975, including two entirely new essays and two previously published only in German.

Book Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies in Early Modern German Culture

Download or read book Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies in Early Modern German Culture written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-11-30 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary collection of essays about early modern Germany addresses the tensions, both fruitful and destructive, between normative systems of order on the one hand, and a growing diversity of practices on the other. Individual essays address crucial struggles over religious orthodoxy after the Reformation, the transformation of political loyalties through propaganda and literature, and efforts to redefine both canonical forms and new challenges to them in literature, music, and the arts. Bringing together the most exciting papers from the 2005 conference of Frühe Neuzeit Interdisziplinär, an international research and conference group, the collection offers fresh comparative insights into the terrifying as well as exhilarating predicaments that the people of the Holy Roman Empire faced between the Reformation and the Enlightenment. Contributors include: Claudia Benthien, Robert von Friedeburg, Markus Friedrich, Claire Gantet, Susan Lewis Hammond, Thomas Kaufmann, Hildegard Elisabeth Keller, Benjamin Marschke, Nathan Baruch Rein, and Ashley West.

Book Dreams  Dreamers  and Visions

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ann Marie Plane
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2013-04-26
  • ISBN : 0812245040
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Dreams Dreamers and Visions written by Ann Marie Plane and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, scholars from three continents trace the role of dreams in the cultural transitions of the early modern Atlantic world, illustrating how both indigenous and European methods of understanding dream phenomena became central to contests over religious and political power.

Book Exorcising our Demons  Magic  Witchcraft and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe

Download or read book Exorcising our Demons Magic Witchcraft and Visual Culture in Early Modern Europe written by Charles Zika and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of sixteen essays deals with the role of magic, religion and witchcraft in European culture, 1450-1650, and the critical role of the visual in that culture. It covers the relationship of humanism and magic; the intersection of religious ritual, orthodoxy and power; the discursive links between the visual language of witchcraft and contemporary anxieties about sexuality and savagery. The introductory chapter urges us to exorcise our tendency to reduce historical experiences of the demonic to forms of unreason created in a distant past. Only then can we understand the role of the demonic in our historical definition of the self and the other. Richly illustrated with 112 images, the book will interest historians and art historians.

Book Dreams in Early Modern England

Download or read book Dreams in Early Modern England written by Janine Riviere and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dreams in Early Modern England shows the variety and complexity of the early modern English discourses on dreams, from the role of dreams and dream theory in framing religious, scientific and philosophical debates, to the way that dreams continued to offer important spiritual and supernatural guidance and lastly how ordinary people exercised agency over their lives through interpreting and using dreams. While today we tend to conceptualize dreams and dreaming as largely psychological, this study shows how early modern people understood dreams and dreaming as many different things, most significantly as political, religious, medical, philosophical and supernatural.

Book Rewriting the Self

    Book Details:
  • Author : Roy Porter
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2002-09-09
  • ISBN : 1134764928
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book Rewriting the Self written by Roy Porter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rewriting the Self is an exploration of ideas of the self in the western cultural tradition from the Renaissance to the Present. The contributors analyse differing religious, philosophical, psychological, political, psychoanalytical and literary models of personal identity. They examine these models from a number of viewpoints, including the history of ideas, contemporary gender politics, and post-modernist literary theory. Rewriting the Self offers a challenge to the received version of the 'ascent of western man'. Lively and controversial, the book broaches big questions in an accessible way. Rewriting the Self arises from a seminar series held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London. The contributors include prominent academics from a range of disciplines.

Book A New Kind of History

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lucien Febvre
  • Publisher : London : Routledge and Kegan Paul
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 412 pages

Download or read book A New Kind of History written by Lucien Febvre and published by London : Routledge and Kegan Paul. This book was released on 1973 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Spiritual and Anabaptist Writers

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  • Author : George Huntston Williams
  • Publisher : Franklin Classics
  • Release : 2018-10-15
  • ISBN : 9780343249175
  • Pages : 426 pages

Download or read book Spiritual and Anabaptist Writers written by George Huntston Williams and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Social Discipline in the Reformation

Download or read book Social Discipline in the Reformation written by R. Po-chia Hsia and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Philip Melanchthon  1497 1560

Download or read book Philip Melanchthon 1497 1560 written by George Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dream Cultures

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  • Author : David Shulman
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 1999-07-08
  • ISBN : 0195352599
  • Pages : 336 pages

Download or read book Dream Cultures written by David Shulman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-07-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a comparative, cross-cultural history of dreams. The essays examine a wide range of texts concerning dreams, as culled from a rich variety of religious contexts: China, India, the Americas, classical Greek and Roman antiquity, early Christianity, and medieval Judaism and Islam. Taken together, these pieces constitute an important first step toward a new understanding of the differences and similarities between the ways in which different cultures experience the universal yet utterly unique world of dreams.