The Pamphlets of the Early Reformation from North and Northwest Bohemia: Their Nature and Relation to Wittenberg
Abstract
The production of German pamphlets also reached its peak in North and Northwest Bohemia in the 1520s. The printed works of the local Evangelical elite show how they participated in the public debate about the common good, but at the same time brought regional issues into play.
The book clarifies the contexts of origin and particularities of individual printed works and deals with the literary and medial strategies that were formative for these works and which partly depended on the contemporaneous production in Wittenberg. Self-attributions and perceptions of others are examined, through which the identity of the evangelised congregations and their spokespersons were constituted.
Furthermore, the author asks about the function of these writings.