By Jonathan Green

ISBN-10: 0472119214

ISBN-13: 9780472119219

Although approximately forgotten this day, the prophetic writing of Wilhelm Friess was once the preferred paintings of its sort in Germany within the moment half the 16th century. whereas the writer “Wilhelm Friess” used to be a handy fiction, his textual content had an extended and noteworthy heritage because it moved from the papal courtroom in fourteenth-century Avignon, to Antwerp less than Habsburg oppression, to Nuremberg because it used to be nonetheless reeling from Lutheran disasters within the Schmalkaldic conflict, after which again to Antwerp on the outbreak of the Dutch revolt.

Dutch students have famous that Frans Fraet used to be completed for printing a prognostication by way of Willem de Vriese, yet this prognostication was once considered misplaced. a number of students of sixteenth-century German apocalypticism have in short famous the prophecies of Wilhelm Friess yet haven't studied them in depth. The unusual and negative Visions of Wilhelm Friess is the 1st to attach de Vriese and Friess, in addition to realize the prophecy of Wilhelm Friess as an version of a French model of theVademecum of Johannes de Rupescissa, making those pamphlets via some distance the main common resource for Rupescissa’s apocalyptic notion in Reformation Germany. The ebook explains the relationship among the 1st and moment prophecies of Wilhelm Friess and discovers the Calvinist context of the second one prophecy and its connection to Johann Fischart, the most very important German writers of the time.

Jonathan eco-friendly presents a research of ways textual historical past interacts with print background in early glossy pamphlets and proposes a version of the way early smooth prophecies have been created and transmitted. The unusual and negative Visions of Wilhelm Friess makes vital contributions to the research of early smooth German and Dutch literature, apocalypticism and confessionalization throughout the Reformation, and the historical past of printing within the 16th century.

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