Conflicting Visions of Reform: German Lay Propaganda Pamphlets, 1519-1530
Author:   Miriam Usher Chrisman
Publisher:   Brill Academic Publishers,US
Volume:   7
ISBN:  

9780391039445


Pages:   288
Publication Date:   01 December 1996
Format:   Hardback
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Conflicting Visions of Reform: German Lay Propaganda Pamphlets, 1519-1530


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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.

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Author:   Miriam Usher Chrisman
Publisher:   Brill Academic Publishers,US
Imprint:   Brill Academic Publishers,US
Volume:   7
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.528kg
ISBN:  

9780391039445


ISBN 10:   039103944
Pages:   288
Publication Date:   01 December 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

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Introduction - the laity and their pamphlets, different forms of discourses; the social order; the fear of injustice - the warning pamphlets; the knights as propagandists; the nobility define Christian life and practice; angry men, the devil and social reform; the urban elite and the convents; the artisans, scripture and Christian practice; the view from below - order in a divided society; city secretaries and the magistrates leglislate the new order.

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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.

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