Keywords: Reformation Propaganda, Catholic clergy, wolf hunt, demons, evangelists, papal greed, Making comparisons between people and animals by portraying them as animals or with the heads of animals was used as a Propagandists tool during the Protestant Reformation. Protestant propaganda employed the greedy canine motif to represent the Catholic clergy in opposition to Christian ideals… Continue reading The World Turned Upside-Down: Christ’s Sheep Against the Papal Wolves of Rome
Keywords: Protestant Reformation, Peace of Augsburg, wolf-human hybrid, Stephen Gardiner, Calvinism, Eucharist, Catholicism, Devil The wolf motif was used to symbolise Catholic greed during the Protestant Reformation. However, the reoccurring theme of a wolf-human hybrid devouring sheep was used to point to the violence of the Catholic Church against Protestants. The wolf who was the… Continue reading The Wolf-Human Hybrid Motif used in Protestant Propaganda against the Re-Catholicism of England
Keywords: good shepherd, doctrine of justification, Martin Luther, Protestant Reformation In Lutheran prints, the symbolic use of light and dark highlighted the boundaries between good and evil, God and the Devil. This motif was derived from the bible, in the words of Jesus: ‘I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never… Continue reading Lightness vs Darkness: Motifs to show Martin Luther is on the side of Light While the Papacy were on the side of Darkness
Keywords: volvelle, Reformation, Wheel of Fortune, false piety, Peace of Augsburg In 1556, Hans Rudolf Manuel Deutsch (1525–1571) designed an interactive and satirical woodcut in 1556 using a volvelle with the title: Die wechselnden Gesichter der Kirche (‘The Changing Faces of the Church’). Another volvelle, with a similar image, was printed in 1620. A volvelle… Continue reading Using Interactive Prints in Reformation Polemical Prints
Keywords: Martin Luther, anti-Catholic polemic, Catholic Church, Greed It was only from the threat of excommunication of Martin Luther with the publishing of the papal bull Exsurge Domine (‘Arise, O Lord’), that condemned 41 of his propositions, did a systematic Protestant campaign start in the early 1520s (Füssel, 2005, p. 167; Holborn, 1965, p. 147).… Continue reading Satirical Animal-Headed Portrayals of Martin Luther’s Theological Opponents
Dana K Rehn 