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For the Sake of Simple Folk - Popular Propaganda for the German Reformation (Paperback, New Ed)
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For the Sake of Simple Folk - Popular Propaganda for the German Reformation (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Clarendon Paperbacks
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In this book R. W. Scribner provides the first detailed analysis of
the forms of propaganda - such as illustrated broadsheets, picture
books, title pages, and book illustrations - which were aimed at
the illiterate and semi-literate during the Reformation, and
reproduces many of the vast corpus of prints which still survive in
scattered locations in Germany. Dr Scribner advances new and
original interpretations of these illustrations, revealing how
visual propaganda exploited popular belief and the coarser aspects
of popular culture, while at the same time being a product of them.
This, he suggests, explains why the Reformation appealed to the
broad masses of sixteenth-century people, even though the
propaganda was unable to educate them in the more complex
theological aspects of the Reformation message. As well as raising
important questions about the Reformation as a religious
phenomenon, the book is a contribution to the understanding of
early modern popular culture, and the nature of propaganda in a
pre-industrial society; it is also a detailed historical study of
the sixteenth-century woodcut. In develolping an interdisciplinary
analysis combining the methods of iconography, semiology,
sociology, and folklore, Dr Scribner presents a fruitful new
approach to the study of popular mentalities. Hailed as a
pioneering study of great importance on its original publication in
1981, For the Sake of Simple Folk is now available in paperback for
the first time, with a new Introduction and additional chapter.
'The reproduction of such a formidable body of "documentation" in
the text is a major achievement . . . important and pioneering
study', Journal of Ecclesiastical History
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