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The rhetoric of the Reformation / Peter Matheson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Matheson, Peter.
- Series:
- Academic
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reformation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (278 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : T & T Clark International, 2004, c1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Peter Matheson has written the first study in English of the Reformation as a literary phenomenon. This book traces the first emergence of a 'public opinion' in European history.Using insights from social history, religion and literature, Professor Matheson explores the connection between the 'communal Reformation' and the outpouring of pamphlets in the early 1520's. These pamphlets helped to create a dynamic and subversive network of communication where language and structure were of equal importance.He also examines the relative strengths of polemical and dialogical approaches in winning adh
- Contents:
- The emergence of a public opinion
- Andreas Karlstadt: a study in motivation
- Reformation dialogues
- Reformation language
- Reformation polemic
- The down-side of polemic
- Mediation and reconciliation: essays at colloquy
- Reformation rhetoric.
- Notes:
- Originally published: 1998.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786613192325
- 9781283192323
- 1283192322
- 9780567068156
- 0567068153
- OCLC:
- 741691684
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