German Sculpture of the Later Renaissance, C. 1520-1580

German Sculpture of the Later Renaissance, C. 1520-1580

Author: Jeffrey Chipps Smith

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 524

ISBN-13: 9780691032375

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Focusing on how sculptures adjusted to this cultural tumult, Jeffrey Chipps Smith offers the first comprehensive examination of the artistic response to the challenge of the Reformation in German lands. In so doing he exposes the years leading up to the Counter-Reformation as a period of surprising artistic vibrance


Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe

Cultural Exchange in Early Modern Europe

Author: Robert Muchembled

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 466

ISBN-13: 0521845491

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This 2007 volume reveals how a first European identity was forged from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Cultural exchange played a central role in the elites' fashioning of self. The cultures they exchanged and often integrated with included palaces, dresses and jewellery but also gestures and dances.


The Renaissance in Europe

The Renaissance in Europe

Author: Keith Whitlock

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780300082234

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"The Reader addresses the themes of humanism, structures of authority, and levels of culture among different social orders and between men and women. And it examines what Burckhardt's 'discovery of the individual' really meant for the construction of self in the late medieval and early modern context."--BOOK JACKET.


The Arts and the Cultural Heritage of Martin Luther

The Arts and the Cultural Heritage of Martin Luther

Author: Eyolf Østrem

Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9788772898438

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Lutheran theology and religious practice re-shaped traditions from the ritual heritage of the Medieval Latin Church. Throughout the cultural history of European Lutheran areas, what came to be seen as "the arts" may be discussed in the light of changing Lutheran traditions: the cultural heritage of Martin Luther. This volume presents a collection of 9 essays on Lutheran traditions and the arts within the 500 years since the Reformation, as a special issue of the journal Transfiguration. This issue has been planned in connection with the Tenth International Congress for Luther Research hosted at the Department of Church History, University of Copenhagen.


The Reformation World

The Reformation World

Author: Andrew Pettegree

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 596

ISBN-13: 9780415163576

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The most ambitious one-volume survey of the Reformation yet, this book is beautifully illustrated throughout. The strength of this work is its breadth and originality, covering the Church, art, Calvinism and Luther.


The Art and Culture of Scandinavian Central Europe, 1550–1720

The Art and Culture of Scandinavian Central Europe, 1550–1720

Author: Kristoffer Neville

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2019-12-10

Total Pages: 549

ISBN-13: 0271085215

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Politically and militarily powerful, early modern Scandinavia played an essential role in the development of Central European culture from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. In this volume, Kristoffer Neville shows how the cultural ambitions of Denmark and Sweden were inextricably bound to those of other Central European kingdoms. Tracing the visual culture of the Danish and Swedish courts from the Reformation to their eventual decline in the eighteenth century, Neville explains how and why they developed into important artistic centers. He examines major projects by figures largely unknown outside of Northern Europe alongside other, more canonical artists—including Cornelis Floris, Adriaen de Vries, and Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach—to propose a more coherent view of this part of Europe, one that rightly includes Scandinavia as a vital component. The seventeenth century has long seemed a bleak moment in Central European culture. Neville’s authoritative and unprecedented study does much to change this perception, showing that the arts did not die in the Reformation and Thirty Years’ War but rather flourished in the Baltic region.


Networking in Late Medieval Central Europe

Networking in Late Medieval Central Europe

Author: Beata Możejko

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-02-10

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1000839141

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Exploring the formation of networks across late medieval Central Europe, this book examines the complex interaction of merchants, students, artists, and diplomats in a web of connections that linked the region. These individuals were friends in business ventures, occasionally families, and not infrequently foes. No single activity linked them, but rather their interconnectivity through matrices based in diverse modalities was key. Partnerships were not always friendship networks, art was sometimes passed between enemies, and families created for financial gain. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the chapters focus on inclusion and exclusion within intercultural networks, both interpersonal and artistic, using a wide spectrum of source materials and methodological approaches. The concept of friends is considered broadly, not only as connections of mutual affection but also simply through business relationships. Families are considered in terms of how they helped or hindered local integration for foreigners and the matrimonial strategies they pursued. Networks were also deeply impacted by rivalry and hostility.


Martin Luther and the Shaping of the Catholic Tradtion

Martin Luther and the Shaping of the Catholic Tradtion

Author: Nelson H. Minnich

Publisher: CUA Press

Published: 2022-01-14

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 0813235324

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When Martin Luther distributed his 95 Theses on indulgences on October 31, 1517, he set in motion a chain of events that profoundly transformed the face of Western Christianity. The 500th anniversary of the 95 Theses offered an opportunity to reassess the meaning of that event. The relation of the Catholic Church to the Reformation that Luther set in motion is complex. The Reformation had roots in the late-medieval Catholic tradition and the Catholic reaction to the Reformation altered Catholicism in complex ways, both positive and negative. The theology and practice of the Orthodox church also entered into the discussions. A conference entitled “Luther and the Shaping of the Catholic Tradition,” held at The Catholic University of America, with thirteen Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant speakers from Germany, Finland, France, the Vatican, and the United States addressed these issues and shed new light on the historical, theological, cultural relationship between Luther and the Catholic tradition. It contributes to deepening and extending the recent ecumenical tradition of Luther-Catholic studies.


Military Ethos and Visual Culture in Post-Conquest Mexico

Military Ethos and Visual Culture in Post-Conquest Mexico

Author: M?aDom?uez Torres

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 587

ISBN-13: 1351558188

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Bringing to bear her extensive knowledge of the cultures of Renaissance Europe and sixteenth-century Mexico, M?a Dom?uez Torres here investigates the significance of military images and symbols in post-Conquest Mexico. She shows how the 'conquest' in fact involved dynamic exchanges between cultures; and that certain interconnections between martial, social and religious elements resonated with similar intensity among Mesoamericans and Europeans, creating indeed cultural bridges between these diverse communities. Multidisciplinary in approach, this study builds on scholarship in the fields of visual, literary and cultural studies to analyse the European and Mesoamerican content of the martial imagery fostered within the indigenous settlements of central Mexico, as well as the ways in which local communities and leaders appropriated, manipulated, modified and reinterpreted foreign visual codes. Military Ethos and Visual Culture in Post-Conquest Mexico draws on post-structuralist and post-colonial approaches to analyse the complex dynamics of identity formation in colonial communities.


Encyclopedia of Protestantism

Encyclopedia of Protestantism

Author: Hans J. Hillerbrand

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 4050

ISBN-13: 1135960275

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For more information including sample entries, full contents listing, and more, visit the Encyclopedia of Protestantism web site. Routledge is proud to announce the publication of a new major reference work from world-renowned scholar Hans J. Hillerbrand. The Encyclopedia of Protestantism is the definitive reference to the history and beliefs that continue to exert a profound influence on Western thought. Featuring entries written by an international team of specialists and scholars, the encyclopedia traces the course of Protestantism from its beginnings prior to 1517, when Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of Wittenberg Cathedral, to the vital and diverse international scene of the present day.