First edition. Analysis of the surviving books published in Strasbourg during the Reformation era, revealing a clear split between vernacular works of the lay culture and books for the learned written in Latin. Chapters on The Book Trade, Clerical Dominance, Forces for Change, Lay Ascendance., and The Struggle for Religious and Academic Orthodoxy. Illustrations, figures, tables, bibliography and index. Ink ownership inscription in corner of front free endpaper. xxx, 401+ 1 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..

Lay Culture, Learned Culture: Books and Social Change in Strasbourg, 1480-1599

History

Chrisman, Miriam Usher

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Yale University Press

First edition. Designed as a tool for scholars working in the sixteenth century. Lists books by subject matter and date. Includes indices by author and printer. xxi, 418 pages. cloth.. 8vo..

Bibliography of Strasbourg imprints, 1480-1599

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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.

Conflicting Visions of Reform: German Lay Propaganda Pamphlets, 1519-1530 (Studies in German Histories)

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Brill Academic Publishers

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