Thomas Muntzer's Vindication and Refutation: A Language for the Common People?
The originality of Thomas Muntzer's thought is mirrored in his language. His last printed work for example, the Vindication and Refutation, draws on a host of popular images, not least those of Carnival, and weaves together the language of prayer, exhortation, and polemic in a highly suggestive...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
1989
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 1989, Volume: 20, Issue: 4, Pages: 603-615 |
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| Summary: | The originality of Thomas Muntzer's thought is mirrored in his language. His last printed work for example, the Vindication and Refutation, draws on a host of popular images, not least those of Carnival, and weaves together the language of prayer, exhortation, and polemic in a highly suggestive and linguistically innovative manner. Conventional patterns of deference are abandoned. Biblical models are used as the basis for a passionate and provocative folk language, both earthly and surrealist. With its forest of images, verbal inventiveness, and graffiti-like humor, it more than holds its own with Luther's Letter to the Princes, to which it was a response. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
| Reference: | Errata "Erratum: "Thomas Muntzer's Vincidation and Refutation: A Language for the Common People?" (1990)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/2541289 |