This collection attempts to set preeminent German Renaissance artist Albrecht DÜ rer (1471-1528) in the cultural context of the early sixteenth century. It offers analyses of and suggests relationships between DÜ rer's work and aspects of his culture that have not received much attention in previous scholarship. These include views of nature and attitudes to collecting, patriotism and morality, witchcraft and the rituals of courtship, the power of visual images and the role of censorship.
This collection attempts to set preeminent German Renaissance artist Albrecht DÜ rer (1471-1528) in the cultural context of the early sixteenth c...
Exploring how visual representations of witchcraft contributed to the widespread acceptance of witch beliefs in 16th century Europe and helped establish the preconditions for the widespread persecution of witches, this book argues that artists and printers used images to relate witchcraft theories.
Exploring how visual representations of witchcraft contributed to the widespread acceptance of witch beliefs in 16th century Europe and helped establi...
In late medieval and early modern Europe, textual and visual records of disaster and mass death allow us to encounter the intense emotions generated through the religious, providential and apocalyptic frameworks that provided these events with meaning. This collection brings together historians, art historians, and literary specialists in a cross-disciplinary collection shaped by new developments in the history of emotions. It offers a rich range of analytical frameworks and case studies, from the emotional language of divine providence to individual and communal experiences of disaster....
In late medieval and early modern Europe, textual and visual records of disaster and mass death allow us to encounter the intense emotions generate...
"Feeling Exclusion investigates the emotional experience of exclusion at the heart of the religious life of persecuted and exiled individuals and communities in early modern Europe"--
"Feeling Exclusion investigates the emotional experience of exclusion at the heart of the religious life of persecuted and exiled individuals and comm...
