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Author Loewe, Andreas

Title Martin Luther and the Arts Music, Images, and Drama to Promote the Reformation
Published Torino : BRILL, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (295 p.)
Series Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions Ser
Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions Ser
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Figures and Tables -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Structure and Scope of This Book -- 1.1 Music -- 1.2 Images -- 1.3 Drama -- 1 Luther's Theory of Music -- 1 Music among the Seven Liberal Arts -- 2 Sources for Luther's Theory of Music -- 3 Luther's Theory of Music -- 4 The Origins of Music -- 4.1 Musica naturalis -- 4.2 Musica mundana -- 4.3 Musica humana -- 4.4 Musica caelestis -- 4.5 Musica artificialis -- 5 Music as a 'Habitus' and Model of Goodness and Praise -- 2 Hymns and Sacred Songs -- 1 Singing, Preaching, and Praising God through Music
2 Lutherans, Music, and the Reformation -- 3 Lutheran Music in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century -- 4 Lutheran 'Kantoreien' as Instruments of Reform -- 3 Martin Luther's 'Mighty Fortress' -- 1 Genesis and Dissemination -- 2 Reception from 1600 to 1945 -- 3 A Hymn of Confidence in God's Eternal Salvation -- 4 Martin Luther on Images -- 1 Radical Reforms in Wittenberg -- 2 Luther's Understanding of Images -- 2.1 Ebenbild (Image and Complete Likeness) -- 2.2 Spiegelbild (Mirror Image) -- 2.3 Merkbild (Image of Remembrance) -- 2.4 Trostbild (Image of Comfort)
2.5 Schandbild (Image of Defamation) -- 2.6 Trugbild (Image of Deception) -- 2.7 Götzenbild (Idolatrous Image) -- 2.8 Furchtbild (Image of Fear) -- 3 Reading 'Law and Grace': A Composite 'Merkbild' (Image of Remembrance) -- 3.1 Visual Literacy in the Medieval and Renaissance Period -- 3.2 'Law and Grace' -- 3.3 Contemporary Representations -- 3.4 Towards Images of Salvation -- 5 Teaching the Reformation to Read Images of Hate -- 1 Luther's Adversarial Images -- 1.1 Reading the 'Donkey Pope' and 'Monk Calf' (1523) -- 1.2 Reading the 'Judensau' -- 2 Later Reception of Luther's Anti-Semitic Polemic
6 Luther and Drama -- 1 Martin Luther and Popular Pre-Reformation Drama -- 2 Luther's Objections to Popular Drama and Ceremonies -- 2.1 Carnival Plays -- 2.2 Corpus Christi Processions and Passion Plays -- 3 Lutheran Biblical Drama -- 4 Joachim Greff and Popular Drama -- 5 Dramatising the Bible -- 5.1 Judith in Saxony -- 5.2 Transforming Audiences into Lutheran Congregations -- 6 Towards a Protestant Dramatisation of the Passion -- 7 Performing the Passion and Resurrection -- 8 In Defence of Passion Drama -- 9 A Matter of Church Polity -- Conclusion -- Appendices
Appendix 1: Luther's Prefaces to the 'Symphoniae Iucundae' -- Appendix 2: Comparing 'Law and Grace' (1529-1550) -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Martin Luther was the architect and engineer of the Protestant Reformation, which transformed Germany five hundred years ago. In Martin Luther and the Arts , Andreas Loewe and Katherine Firth elucidate Luther's theory and practice, demonstrating the breadth, flexibility and rigour of Luther's use of the arts to reach audiences and convince them of his Reformation message using a range of strategies, including music, images and drama alongside sermons, polemical tracts, and his new translation of the Bible into German. Extensively based on German and English sources, including often neglected aspects of Luther's own writings, Loewe and Firth offer a valuable survey for theologians, historians, art historians, musicologists and literary studies scholars interested in interdisciplinary comparisons of Luther's work across the arts
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Reformation and art.
Arts.
Arts
Reformation and art
Form Electronic book
Author Firth, Katherine
ISBN 9789004527430
9004527435