After Luther: Visual Culture, Materiality and the Legacy of 1517

Do historians look at Luther and the Lutheran Reformation differently in the aftermath of the Lutherjahr of 2017, and its frenzy of academic and public activity? As recent publications on Luther demonstrate - notably Lyndal Roper's 2016 biography Martin Luther: renegade and prophet - there is a...

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Main Author: Spinks, Jennifer 1971- (Author)
Contributors: Heal, Bridget (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2021
In: The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 2021, Volume: 72, Issue: 4, Pages: 822-827
Review of:Luther! - 95 Treasures - 95 People (München : Hirmer, 2017) (Spinks, Jennifer)
A magnificent faith (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017) (Spinks, Jennifer)
Remembering the Reformation (London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020) (Spinks, Jennifer)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Luther, Martin 1483-1546 / Reformation anniversary (2017) / Materiality / Culture / Heir (Person)
IxTheo Classification:CH Christianity and Society
KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBB German language area
KDD Protestant Church
Further subjects:B Book review
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Summary:Do historians look at Luther and the Lutheran Reformation differently in the aftermath of the Lutherjahr of 2017, and its frenzy of academic and public activity? As recent publications on Luther demonstrate - notably Lyndal Roper's 2016 biography Martin Luther: renegade and prophet - there is a still a great deal to say about Luther, and how his friendships, passions, prejudices and physical experiences shaped him. But while Luther was the monumental public figure of 2017, some of the most important work coinciding with the anniversary addressed instead Lutheranism as a movement, and the nature of religious identities in Luther's aftermath. It also demonstrated and furthered the impact of the visual and material turn in history and in Reformation studies. Building upon decades of scholarship on Lutheran visual images, recent Reformation scholarship has demonstrated in increasing depth how religious identity can and should be read through both material and visual culture. The three publications examined here - a monograph by Bridget Heal, a website by Brian Cummings, Ceri Law, Bronwyn Wallace and Alexandra Walsham, and the exhibition catalogue Luther! 95 treasures - 95 people - contribute to the material, sensory turn in Reformation and early modern scholarship, and in the latter two cases also reveal the impact of this upon public engagement with Reformation histories.
ISSN:1469-7637
Contains:Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0022046920002614