Keywords: Human-animal hybrids, Monstrous Races, Monstrous Births, Wild Man, Werewolves Representations of human-animal hybrids and the concept of shape-shifting in both literary sources and the visual arts captured the early modern European imagination. This is particularly evident in the prevalence of pictorial prints featuring these creatures dated in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries that… Continue reading Representations of Monsters in German Renaissance Prints
Keywords: Norse mythology, Odin, warrior-wolf tribes, Lombards Old Norse literature is filled with stories of shape-shifting transformation of humans and gods alike, reflecting oral traditions of several hundred years (Davidson, 1986, p. 142; Cheilik, 1987, p. 269). These transformations were either voluntary, hereditary, or the result of a curse (Pluskowski, 2006, p. 185). They include… Continue reading Germanic Warrior Wolf Tribes: Werewolves, Shamanism, and Outlaws
Keywords: Werewolves, Renaissance, Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Witchcraft, Criminals, Wolves The sixteenth century was marked by a period of significant change from the Renaissance, Age of Discovery, and the Reformation that created instability and anxiety. Together with the popularity of prints and superstitious beliefs fuelled by repeated war and death from disease and famine, sixteenth-century Germany was… Continue reading A Brief Historical Background to the Werewolf Myth in Sixteenth-Century Germany
I was interested in an article that was trending on Twitter on the history of Nazis and the far-right in Australia. I was intrigued being of German heritage (on my father’s side) of the photo of men dressed surrounding a Nazi flag, which was taken in the Barossa Valley in 1935. My ancestors migrated to… Continue reading German Nazi Party Members in South Australia’s Barossa Valley
Keywords: Martin Luther, Protestant Reformation, Catholic Church, what was the protestant reformation, Pope, Antichrist, Prints, Propaganda. Martin Luther: Prophet, Hero and Saviour Hans Baldung Grien, 'Portrait of Martin Luther', illustrated on the titlepage of Martin Luther, Acta et res gestae D. Martini Lutheri in Comitns Principu Vuormaciae, Anno, Strasbourg, 1521, Munich, Bayerische StaatsBibliothek. Martin Luther… Continue reading Exhibition: Martin Luther’s Protestant Reformation
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