These most recent essays of the late Bob Scribner show his original and provocative views as a historian on the German Reformation. Subjects covered include popular culture, art, literacy, Anabaptism, witchcraft, Protestantism and magic.
Robert W. Scribner Libri
9 giugno 1941 – 29 gennaio 1998
Questo storico si è specializzato nella Riforma tedesca, nella religione e cultura popolari, nonché nella storia sociale ed economica. Il suo lavoro approfondisce l'intricato arazzo del passato, scoprendo la complessa interazione tra fede, società ed economia. Ha condiviso la sua esperienza in istituzioni tra cui Portsmouth, Londra, Cambridge e Harvard, plasmando la comprensione di innumerevoli studenti e studiosi. La sua scrittura è caratterizzata da una ricerca meticolosa e da una profonda capacità di dare vita ai soggetti storici.
The first detailed analysis of the forms of popular propaganda which were aimed at the illiterate and semi-literate during the Reformation in Germany.
The German Reformation
- 128pagine
- 5 ore di lettura
In recent years, new approaches to the history of the Reformation of the Church have radically altered our understanding of that event within its broadest social and cultural context. In this concise study, R. W. Scribner provides a synthesis of the main research, with special emphasis on the German Reformation, and presents his own interpretation of the period. The second edition of this successful text now includes a new Introduction, a supplementary chapter and a supplementary bibliography by C. Scott Dixon.
Studies in the field of popular religion have for some time been among the most innovative in social and cultural history, but until now there have been few publications providing any adequate overview for Germany and the Holy Roman Empire. This volume presents the results of recent research by younger scholars working on major aspects of this subject. The nine essays range over nearly four centuries of German history, encompassing late medieval female piety, propaganda for radical Hussite dissent, attitudes towards the Jews, legitimation for the witchcraze on the eve of the Reformation, attempts to implement Protestant reform in German villages, Reformation attacks on population magic and female culture, problems of defining the Reformation in small German towns, Protestant popular prophecy and the formation of confessional identity, and the missionising strategies of the Counter-Reformation