Faces of the Reformation
Some time in the second quarter of the seventeenth century the London bookseller Thomas Jenner published an engraving that shows a selection of prominent Protestant Reformers. This image was copied and adapted all over Europe into the nineteenth century. In this article a variety of adaptations of t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
2017
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Church history and religious culture
Year: 2017, Volume: 97, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 408-451 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Europe
/ Reformers
/ Image
/ History 1623-1800
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| IxTheo Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBA Western Europe KDD Protestant Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Reformation
print culture
satire
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | Some time in the second quarter of the seventeenth century the London bookseller Thomas Jenner published an engraving that shows a selection of prominent Protestant Reformers. This image was copied and adapted all over Europe into the nineteenth century. In this article a variety of adaptations of this print are placed on an approximate timeline, and it is argued that they present us with a unique visual record of the way in which the Reformation was reconceptualised in a number of national contexts and in successive periods. |
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| ISSN: | 1871-2428 |
| Contains: | In: Church history and religious culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/18712428-09703003 |