"In His Image and Likeness": Political Iconography and Religious Change in Regensburg, 1500–1600

Kristin Zapalac

Published by Cornell University Press 1990

"In His Image and Likeness"

Political Iconography and Religious Change in Regensburg, 1500–1600

Kristin Zapalac

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501746406

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About this book

In this ground-breaking book, Kristin Zapalac brings together the methods of social, intellectual, and art history to achieve a new understanding of how the Protestant Reformation altered the terms of political discourse in a German free imperial city. In Zapalac's view, visual and verbal images, many of them having their origins in conceptions of the sacred, were more central to sixteenth-century political thought within the city walls than was the rationalized language of law. Drawing on a wealth of sources including bookbindings, sermons, wills, frescoes, decrees, and woodcuts, she traces the impact of religious change on the languages of judgment and authority used in the city of Regensburg, and thereby sheds light on the nature of political thought in early modern Germany.

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Kristin Zapalac, a former fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard, is currently Assistant Professor of History at Washington University, Saint Louis.

Reviews

R. Po-chia Hsia, University of Massachusetts, Amherst:

This imaginative, original, and substantial piece of scholarship is a major contribution to early modern European history, especially to the field of Reformation studies.

David Sabean, Cornell University:

'In His Image and Likeness' is the finest piece of political language analysis I have read in years. This book will be absolutely central reading in sixteenth-century studies.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Kristin E. S. Zapalac Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Note on Translations Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Prolegomena "In His Image and Likeness'': Luther's Revision of the Augustinian Epistemology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. Christ among the Councillors: The Iconography of Justice in the Late-Medieval Rathaus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
2. God among the Councillors: The Iconography of Justice after the Reformation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
3. Widow, Wife, Daughter: The Iconography of Resistance to the Emperor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
4. Gottvater, Stadtviiter, Hausviiter: Paternal Imagery in the Dialogue between Burger and Rat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
Frequently Used Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Illustrations
- Other: 73 black-and-white illustrations
Keywords: West European History; Religious Studies

eBook

Published: May 15, 2019
ISBN: 9781501746406