R.W. Scribner's pioneering work analyzes the forms of popular propaganda aimed at the illiterate and semi-literate during the German Reformation and reproduces many of the prints which still survive in Germany. A new Introduction and an additional chapter in this edition advance original interpretations of these illustrations, revealing how visual propaganda both exploited and participated in popular belief and the coarser aspects of popular culture.

For The Sake Of Simple Folk: Popular Propaganda for the German Reformation (Clarendon Paperbacks)

Arts & Photography

Scribner, R. W.

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press, U.S.A.

In recent years, new approaches to the history of the Reformation of the Church have radically altered our understanding of that event within its broadest social and cultural context. In this concise study, R. W. Scribner provides a synthesis of the main research, with special emphasis on the German Reformation, and presents his own interpretation of the period. The second edition of this successful text now includes a new Introduction, a supplementary chapter and a supplementary bibliography by C. Scott Dixon.

German Reformation (Studies in European History, 17)

History

Europe

Red Globe Press

Hardcover with dust jacket. VG/VG. Very slight foxing.

For the Sake of Simple Folk: Popular Propaganda for the German Reformation (Cambridge Studies in Oral and Literate Culture, Series Number 2)

Religion & Spirituality

Cambridge University Press

The Reformation has traditionally been explained in terms of theology, the corruption of the church and the role of princes. R.W. Scribner, while not denying the importance of these, shifts the context of study of the German Reformation to an examination of popular beliefs and behaviour, and of the reactions of local authorities to the problems and opportunities for social as well as religious reform. This book brings together a coherent body of work that has appeared since 1975, including two entirely new essays and two previously published only in German.

Popular Culture and Popular Movements in Reformation Germany

Bloomsbury Academic

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Scribner, R. W.. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Scribner, R. W.