For the sake of simple folk : popular propaganda for the German Reformation /

In this book R.W. Scribner provides the first detailed analysis of the forms of popular 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...

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Main Author: Scribner, Robert W.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1994.
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Summary:In this book R.W. Scribner provides the first detailed analysis of the forms of popular 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.
Item Description:"Clarendon paperbacks."
Physical Description:xxix, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0198203268
9780198203261