For the sake of simple folk – Robert W. Scribner Koop Vandaag

In this book R. W. Scribner provides the first detailed analysis of the forms of propaganda – such as illustrated broadsheets, picture books, title pages, and book illustrations – which were aimed at the illiterate and semi-literate during the Reformation, and reproduces many of the vastcorpus of prints which still survive in scattered locations in Germany.Dr Scribner advances new and original interpretations of these illustrations, revealing how visual propaganda exploited popular belief and the coarser as…