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[Strittigkeit der Bilder, Bände 1-3]
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Edited by:
Jörg Jochen Berns
About this book
This set contains all three volumes from the edition On the Contentiousness of Images, providing reliable insights into a German-speaking, theologically founded media debate carried out in the sixteenth century and encompassing ninety-nine texts by authors ranging from Bullinger to Zwingli. As a tool for image studies research, this collection is an indispensable resource and includes an extensive commentary and comprehensive index.
Author / Editor information
Jörg Jochen Berns, University of Marburg, Germany.
Topics
This volume provides the most comprehensive documentation of German controversies about pictorial images in the 16th century. It includes texts by 47 authors from different religious denominations along with commentary, an afterword, and detailed name and subject indexes. The two-volume work provides insight into this original debate on media in the German-speaking world, furnishing an unprecedented level of detail and information.
A standard work of sixteenth-century German image theory, that never existed in this richness: The Contentiousness of Images. The third volume in the document collection adds thirty-nine texts to the sixty texts on the iconological controversy – by writers like Amling, Blarer, Eberlin, Isaak, Leucht, Palladius, Pezel, and Wallser.
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